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TIL Joseph Goebbels killed 6 of his own children, before committing suicide

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7re8x TIL Humans are not descendents of apes but are apes. They are more closely related to chimps and bonobonos than the African elephant to the Indian elephant
gr5lW TIL about Project 100,000, a controversial 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards.
45JR TIL radiocarbon dating will no longer work independently on fossils and artifacts post-WW2 due to residual radiation resulting nuclear arms testing. Future archeologists will not be able to date our remains using only carbon dating.
4XxJg TIL a large number of Graffiti found in Pompeii are political ads. Specificaly, one Gnaeus Helvius Sabinus appears in no less than 140 political signs throughout the town, endorsed by all manner of individuals, trade unions, religious and social groups
bBB9 TIL In the heat of a battle in the Spanish-American war, Former Confederate cavalry hero General Joseph Wheeler allegedly cried “To hell with the Yankees! Dammit, I mean the Spainards.”