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TIL there is a board game where players load tiny figures into boxcars and race. Once a player gets to the end it is revealed that the destination is Auschwitz.

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nBoY TIL in 2004 North Korea demanded that the Czech Republic ban “Team America: World Police” from theaters. The Czech Foreign Minister relied “Obviously, it’s absurd to demand that in a democratic country.”
BJBb TIL Bertrand Russel said “in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt”. This is actually a bias called the Dunning–Kruger effect which says unskilled individuals feel an illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their analysis to be much better than it is.
N7wjE TILA that the sun burns white and it's only because of Earth's atmosphere that we see it as yellow.
prYA TIL that “in the second grade [Shakira] rejected from the school choir because her vibrato was too strong. The music teacher told her that she sounded ‘like a goat’.”
xVRo TIL that there’s a dwarf planet that orbits between Mars and Jupiter