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TIL the catacombs of Paris hold the remains of over 6 million people.

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16l4r TIL about Lager Sylt and Lager Norderney, the only Nazi Concentration camps ever built on British soil. Both were located on Alderney Island in the English Channel during WWII.
54BR TIL Germans have a tool which breaks eggs perfectly called a Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher.
mK7O TIL sliced bread was originally advertised as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped”
wg8E TIL: Facts are increasingly ineffective at convincing people to change their minds and in fact will only root people deeper in their original beliefs.
9YjdD TIL about Georgia Tann, a woman who stole about 5000 babies from poor parents.