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TIL the company that produced WWII gas chamber poison and melted Jewish gold teeth also produced the anti-graffiti finish on the Jewish memorial in Berlin

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XEaBQ TIL that D-Day was mostly planned by British Commanders, the most prominent being Lieutenant-General Frederick E. Morgan, with Bernard Montgomery placed in charge of all ground forces (including the US Army)
Ng6M TIL that Coffeemate is allowed to say it has no trans fats despite having a lot (it is the second ingredient) because they made the serving size absurdly small.
l5dr TIL During WWII there was a scheme to make Hitler more docile by lacing his food with hormone oestrogen.
kJjdg TIL that the Mount Tambora eruption had an explosive yield of 33 gigatons of TNT, 60 times more powerful than all nuclear weapons tests combined.