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TIL that a Jewish officer lead the unit that liberated Auschwitz

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XE0br TIL In 2013, a Pizza Hut GM Stood Up and Refused to Force His Employees to Work Thanksgiving, Believing They Should Get to Spend Time With Family Instead.
wLKo6 TIL the so-called ‘Pillars of Creation’, which are to be found within the Eagle Nebula. The nebula lies 6,500 light years away. The ‘pillar’ on the left is 4 light-years high, which is around 24,000,000,000,000 miles, (24 trillion).
16krP TIL about Grigori Perelman, who was the mathematician who solved the Poincaré Conjecture and refused any of the prizes that followed
9Ym8m TIL that the Cranberries' song Zombie was written in response to the killing of two children by the IRA on Mother's Day weekend
wLPn6 TIL Our knowledge of what Potassium Cyanide tastes like comes from one man's suicide note, which he meant for doctors to read. He noted it tasted acrid and burned his tongue.