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TIL about Francisco Boix who not only survived Mauthausen concentration camp. He also managed to save thousands of negatives that would later be used as photographic evidence documenting the atrocities. He even helped convict nazis at the Nuremberg trials using his evidence.

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LkvXm TIL in 1996 One strain of Yersinia pestis or "The Black Death" were found completely drug-resistant.
x6B97 TIL Abraham Lincoln and four other Illinois legislators jumped out of a window to prevent a quorum on a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois State Bank in 1840. It was reported that this wasn't his first time doing this to prevent a vote.
QNWBp TIL in 1957, dentist Charles Kremer in New York voiced his suspicion that a high-ranking church official, Archbishop Valerian Trifa, was actually the Nazi war criminal Viorel Trifa. 20 years later, investigators found Trifa's fingerprint on a postcard to Heinrich Himmler in a German archive.
K9bR TIL that the Dwarves in the Tolkien universe are supposed to represent Jewish people. Tolkien stated:“The Dwarves of course are quite obviously—wouldn’t you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic.”
D1rp TIL that in 2006, two women named Madeleine Mores (who claimed to have never met each other) both claimed to have the same identity along w/ corroborating birth certificates and govt documentation. When presented with a photograph of them together from the 1940’s, neither remembered it being taken.