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TIL A survivor of Auschwitz is looking for his missing twin on Facebook.

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jYdv TIL Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker is a trained opera singer who can sing opera in seven different languages.
VMN4Z TIL before Liam Neeson was cast as Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Mel Gibson expressed interest in the part.
4XLAa TIL that although the Chernobyl nuclear-power-plant had a meltdown in 1986 and had rendered the land around it uninhabitable, the remaining reactors of the facility remained in normal operation and generated power until 2000.
YDAv TIL that Josephine Baker would sometimes bring her pet cheetah, Chiquita, on stage during her performances. The cheetah would often leap in to the orchestra pit and terrorize the musicians, adding a new level of excitement to the show.
x6ZRo TIL of the 1982 Uiryeong massacre, when 56 people were killed by South Korean policeman Woo Bum-kon. Woo was enraged after his girlfriend woke him by swatting a fly on his chest.