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TIL that during WWI, some 120,000 Belgian civilians (of both sexes) were used as forced labour by the Germans, with roughly half being deported to Germany and half being sent to work just behind the front lines.

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WDPY TIL JCPenney tried to do away with fake retail sales and implemented flat rate pricing. They failed miserably and lost 700 million dollars.
0oGR TIL that Astrid Lindgren, the author of Pippi Longstocking, at one point paid a marginal tax rate of 102%. She nevertheless supported the Social Democratic Party responsible for the tax rate her whole life.
VMVOZ TIL Agatha Christie's in-depth description of using Thallium to poison people in her novel, The Pale Horse, inspired several people to poison others in real life. In some instances, medical professionals who had read the book recognized the symptoms when others had not.
9YVBG TIL: Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born physicist, discovered that atomic nuclei can be split in half. She and her nephew explained and named nuclear fission in 1939, but the recognition went to Otto Hahn for this discovery. He was granted a Nobel Prize in 1944 in Chemistry.
epNpb TIL that FIFA 14 is the only game ever to release across 3 generations of Playstation consoles, with versions available for PS2, PS3 and PS4