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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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ryLW TIL that Jimmy Smits (Miguel) nearly killed a stunt man while shooting Dexter with a real knife.
R54Yj TIL Spain and Portugal have a border dispute over the city and region of Olivenza, going all the way back to the Congress of Vienna
VMEJ0 TIL - Benjamin Franklin created mental health institutions in Philadelphia paid for by a tax on Authors (like himself) "because they happened to get a greater share of intelligence at birth just as the retarded happened to get less."
7roKp TIL About the Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903, in which over 602 people died. It gained a lot of attention as the victims were mainly women and children from an upper-middle class background. The theatre had been falsely billed as “absolutely fireproof”, but lacked basic safety infrastructure.
VpAm TIL that the Tourette Syndrome Association released a statement after the South Park episode “Le Petit Tourette” where they complimented the show on being “well researched” and that it “served as a clever device” to get accurate information to the public.