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

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V018 TIL Joe Namath, being from a largely black community in Pennsylvania, attended the University of Alabama during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, and was often involved in fights with white teammates and other white southerners while defending African Americans.
Anaw TIL: The length of a second is “the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.”
yQZPw TIL of Marv Heemeyer Who built an armoured bulldozer After losing an appeal in the council against construction of a concrete plant and destroyed his own shop, the concrete plant, city hall, fr. mayor's house,, a hardware store. In the end he killed himself, the only fatality of the event.
ADvb4 TIL Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher's mother, died a day after Carrie Fisher's death.
J5Z1 TIL That ‘Paranormal Activity’ only cost $15000 to produce and made $193.4 million at the box office