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TIL the BBC broadcast coded messages to British secret agents behind enemy lines during WWII

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A5Vg TIL that when concentration camps were liberated, the Allied military government of Germany forced many homosexuals to finish their sentences and refused to recognize them as victims of Nazi persecution.
oBVBo TIL Skin from the Tilapia fish is used to treat burn victims in Brazil. The treatment proved to be effective enough that veterinarians across California used The fish skin to treat the animals that were burned during the wildfires
grorX TIL Machiavelli hated the clergy. Bored at work at a monastery, he amused himself by asking his boss to send him fat envelops stuffed with paper and instruct messengers to run, just to mess with the priests and make them think there's something important going on that they're not privy to
p8PwO TIL that in 1933 6000 people were deported by the Soviet Union to an island in the middle of Siberia and were abandoned there without food or shelter. Within three weeks most of the prisoners were dead due to the widespread episodes of cannibalism. The island became known as “Cannibal Island”.
W0kY TIL the inventor of Tickle Me Elmo was suspected by the FBI of being the Unabomber.