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TIL about Miklós Nyiszli, a Jewish-Hungarian inmate at Auschwitz. As a doctor by profession, he had to assist Dr. Mengele in cruel "experiments" and could in return live within a room inside Crematorium II. He survived and never again worked with a scalpel after the war.

6EMxl TIL why you paid more for your hard disk in 2012: after Saudi Arabian oil company Saudi Aramco was hit by targeted malware W32.DistTrack.Shamoon, its owners sent out the company's private airplane fleet abroad to purchase every available hard drive, causing their global shortage and price increase.
xVL95 TIL that your life really does flash before your eyes when you die. A study interviewing participants with "near death" experiences found that they re-witnessed very emotional experiences again, and lost all sense of time. One subject said "It was like being there for centuries."
7Z8P TIL that Gary Leon Ridgway stood up in a Seattle court on 5 November, 2003 and admitted 48 counts of aggravated first degree murder, he officially became America’s most prolific serial killer.
Q9JX TIL between 1995-2000, the chief of security of McDonald’s monopoly pieces passed all the most expensive pieces to employees. They netted over 26 million dollars.
yV0l8 TIL that in the days of sailing ships cannibalism among shipwrecked sailors was openly acknowledged, and castaways often admitted to drawing lots to decide who would live and who die. This was called a "custom of the sea" excused because of the dire necessity