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TIL, the phrase “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” has been attributed to both the Nazi Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels

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wZ5P TIL after WW1 the French had the railway cars that Germany surrender in stored in a museum. During WW2 when France was preparing to surrender, Hitler ordered the walls of museum torn down and the railway cars returned to the exact spot of the 1918 armistice in order to humiliate the French.
5YGrP TIL of Alcibiades, an ancient greek general who'd served not one, not two, but three nations during the Peloponnesian War. After being exiled from Athens by his enemies, he played a pivotal role in their downfall whilst serving Sparta, and vice versa when he served Athens again until he got exiled.
5Xb9 TIL that the Human Brain’s ability to store memories is equivalent to about 2.5 petabytes of binary data
D1nXp TIL that three composers created "The Most Unwanted Song" based on an opinion poll of annoying musical elements in 1997. It includes bagpipes, a rapping opera singer, children singing about Christmas shopping at Walmart, and much more. It is twenty two minutes long.
699GW TIL beetles constitute almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms