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TIL the adapted trucks to be used as mobile gas chambers by the fascist regime in Germany to kill 300,000 were supplied by a Swiss firm which is still in business

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N7nR8 TIL Rick James and Neil Young were in a band together
8oKZ TIL that the children of identical twins test genetically as half-siblings instead of first cousins
DQdrV TIL Nero the fifth emperor of Rome, kicked his pregnant wife, Poppaea Sabina, to death. He then found a lookalike of her, a young boy, castrated him and tried to make him his wife.
Y70PP TIL Early home radios were referred to as BC capable, meaning Broadcast Channels. BC was AM signals, but AM was not a common reference until FM radios came along and they had to distinguish between them. Much like early records were never called 78s until after 33s and 45s came along.
mxnoE TIL: Wesley Autrey, a man who saved a student’s life after they had a seizure and fell onto the tracks at a station. A train was approaching. Westley leapt onto the tracks and threw himself over the student. All but two cars still passed over them, close enough to leave grease on Westley’s cap.