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TIL IBM delivered computers to Nazi Germany

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Wme9 TIL following the 1960 Chilean Earthquake, A 5 year old boy was killed as a human sacrifice ritual. The men who murdered him were released from jail after 2 years. A judge ruled that those involved had “acted without free will, driven by an irresistible natural force of ancestral tradition.”
MbQK TIL 80,000 Inca warriors were defeated by only 168 Spaniards in the Battle of Cajamarca (outnumbered 450:1) in 1532
xVLE7 TIL During the Irish famine, about a million people died and another million emigrated, causing the Island's population to drop by about 20-25 percent.
aZgJ TIL that Tesla is now worth more than Ford Motor Company