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TIL that Mozart died in 1791, leaving his ‘Requiem in D minor’ unfinished. His student, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, completed the work using Mozart’s sketches, creating the version most widely performed today.

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kLG4 TIL Isla Kock also known as the “The Bitch of Buchenwald” was a Nazi who was known for her sadistic abusive methods towards her prisoners in which she often killed them and had them skinned alive to use to make items such as Lamp Shades. The Purse she proudly carried around was made from human skin
w5DY TIL that a historian in the Warsaw Ghetto organized a massive effort to record everything that was happening there, including everything from diaries to photographs and letters. The collection, called Oyneg Shabbos, was buried in three places in 1943, and the largest part hasn’t yet been found.
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m10ME TIL about Juliane Koepcke. At age 17 she spent 11 days alone in the Amazon rainforest after her plane broke apart & scattered the passengers. She knew how to give first aid & survive in the wilderness because she'd been homeschooled in a rural area, so unlike the others she survived her journey out.