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TIL I learned an American-born, Irish-raised, fascist, nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw went to Germany to broadcast Nazi propaganda to the UK in a British accent during WWII.

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gMgAX Police across the US are training crime-predicting AIs on falsified data
D1gJj TIL that the oldest recorded piece of music is the ‘Hurrian Hymn no.6’ and is 3400 years old.
Y7XWv TIL George V’s death was purposely expedited by his doctor when he injected the Kings jugular vein with morphine and cocaine. Some have called it euthanasia, others, murder.
WkJ08 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.
XXpR TIL General Douglas MacArthur earned seven Silver Stars in WWI, vomited on the White House steps, wore a kimono while working at home as Army Chief of Staff, was awarded the very first Purple Heart, was Father of the Year in 1942, and told JFK to not get involved in Vietnam