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TIL that in the '60s, ITT Corporation won $27 million in compensation from the US for damage inflicted on its share of the Focke-Wulf plant by Allied bombing during WW2

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e0N6E TIL that email tracking is achieved by employing a tiny pixel image attached to your email that is invisible to you, but once you open the email, the image is loaded from a server and the server records that data for the tracking service.
jNVKj TIL undercover police posing as drug buyers were arrested by undercover police posing as drug dealers
AEAa TIL In 1832 the US Supreme court ruled in favor of the Cherokee Indians wanting to remain on their native land. President Andrew Jackson ignored the order and tens of thousands of Cherokee were forcibly removed from their homes and marched to Oklahoma. Thousands died on the mach, the Trail of Tears.
Wk6Z8 TIL Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital. (1924)
p8eeG TIL: Shanghai was one of the few places that didn't require an entry visa in the years before WWII, so thousands of Jews fleeing Germany went there. Because German authorities required a visa to leave, Ho Feng Shan, the consul-general in Austria, made "fake" visas, over his superior's objections.