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TIL Japanese Diplomat Chiune Sugihara and wife Yukiko stayed up handwriting thousands of Visas for entering Japan to Jews in Lithuania as Nazis neared, saving 6,000 lives while disobeying bosses’ orders to do it

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OopdY TIL in 2012 wanting a dad was the tenth highest requested Christmas gift by children in the UK.
pVBp TIL the dagger found in Tutankhamun’s tomb was made from iron from a meteorite
gM5GD TIL that the furthest detected individual star is 14.4 billion light years from Earth. We can detect it from so far away because gravity from objects between us and the star have warped its light, magnifying it 2000 times and focusing the star's light onto Earth for telescopes to pick up.
yn7X TIL the guy that ran against Hitler in the German Presidential Election of 1932 was arrested 1 year later, thrown into solitary confinement until 1944, and then shot on Hitlers order.
yQ4Ap John Collins, also known as 'The Paper Airplane Guy,' teaches us how to fold and fly our very own version of his "world record" paper airplane. John attempts to make the greatest paper airplane on the planet, and takes us along for the ride.