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TIL that there was a pro-Hitler/Nazi Jewish organization led by Max Naumann. Once Hitler took power the organization was broken up & members, including Naumann, were sent to concentration camps.

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m1d9y TIL on January 5, 1941, 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappeared after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead. Her body was never found.
jbLa TIL there are less blimp pilots in the world than astronauts
g7Vy TIL there is a group that believes they can cure autism by giving children bleach enemas
QJEAd TIL that in 1994 a Boy Scout attempted to make a neutron gun and irradiated himself and his neighborhood in the process until he got arrested.
V0aZ TIL In the early 1950’s, anyone could get hold of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. His number was in the phone book.