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TIL Anne Frank died of a typhus epidemic that ravaged Bergen-Belsen rather than by execution.

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4Xx0o TIL: A man found guilty of deer poaching has been sentenced to a year in prison, and has been ordered to watch Bambi at least once a month during that year
j6E7v TIL that Abraham Lincoln is in the wrestling hall of fame. His career span 13 years in which he suffered only one defeat in his 300 or so contests.
O6GX TIL Orson Welles once met Hitler in the 1920s at a dinner, but later described the encounter saying, “He made so little impression on me that I can’t remember a second of it. He had no personality whatsoever.”
Z8gVv TIL about garum, a popular condiment in ancient Rome. Garum was a type of fish sauce that was widely used in everyday cooking, came in different flavors, and even had a kosher version.
EgM5P TIL in 1909, Major Frederick Burnham discovered a meteorite which had impacted Mexico already covered in ancient human inscriptions. Though the symbols are assumed to be Mayan, the "Esperanza Stone" has never been translated.