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TIL about "Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines", a Rwandan radio station nicknamed "Radio Genocide" because of its hateful propaganda against Tutsis that fueled the Rwandan Genocide

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LXEQ TIL that above the gates of the Buchenwald concentration camp were the words “Everyone gets what they deserve”. After the war the camp became a prison site for Nazis, and the words were not removed.
grMk8 TIL That identical twin sisters in Italy once ran a scam where they both worked in different courtrooms at the same time, allowing them to double book. It lasted for three years before they were caught.
X0Bgr TIL: In WW2 the military held Drag shows, to boost morale and as forms of entertainment, also know as GIs as Dolls, there were even handbooks to help military put on the shows to get them done correctly known as the blueprint specials
VMODm TIL about "Fallen Astronaut," the first (and, so far, only) art installation on the moon. The 3.3-inch aluminum figurine was left on the surface by the crew of Apollo 15 as a memorial to 14 Americans and Soviets who died in service of their nation's space programs.
9wOWm TIL Peter Higg's original paper predicting the existence of the Higgs Boson was originally rejected by a scientific journal for being "of no obvious relevance to physics"