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TIL The Nazi commander that put down the Warsaw Uprising went on to remain unpunished for his crimes.

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N7koN TIL there’s even a crater on the moon named after a Confederate officer.
neAoo TIL Ferrari merchandise (tee shirts, hats, sunglasses, key chains and anything that projects their association with the brand), accounts for $2.5 billion in sales each year, slightly more than the revenue from selling cars.
8apnG TIL while 95% of U.S. adults support organ donation, only 54% are actually signed up as donors.
DMlP TIL that man by the name of John Leal put chlorine into a city’s water supply unbeknownst to anyone else which eventually landed him in court. His work would go on to cut the infant mortality rate in half and dropped the rate of death for typhoid nearly to zero.
901M TIL in 2008, a 15-year-old liver transplant patient became the first person in the world to take on the immune system and blood type of her donor.