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TIL of Carl Lutz, who is credited with saving 62,000 Bulgarian Jews almost singlehandedly.

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5VyP8 TIL the astragalus of a prehistoric rhinoceros, collected by the Ancient Greeks, was discovered at the Mycenae archaeological site in the 1970s.
9wLkM TIL about the First Families of Virginia which include 6 US presidents from Washington to Carter, Robert E. Lee, and Elvis Presley, among many others.
Z8yYo TIL Biblioteca Joanina is one of only two libraries in the world that house a colony of bats. At night the bats hunt insects inside the library, thus helping with the maintenance of the stacks.
6EWyJ TIL American black non-commissioned officers had to accept a demotion to private in order to volunteer for combat duty during the Second World War, so they wouldn't be able to give orders to white soldiers.
deej TIL that on this date (June 12) in 1942 Anne Frank received an autograph book from her father for her 13th birthday. That book became her diary.