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TIL Oskar Dirlewanger was a Nazi officer so sadistic that other SS units avoided interacting with him. He's been accused of child molestation and necrophilia, and was beaten to death by guards while in Allied custody

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b9yBp TIL that in 1890 William Morrison invented the first successful practical electric automobile in the United States.
E10dd TIL the word for loving the smell of old books is Bibliosmia and that scientists can analyse the chemicals responsible for the old book smell to determine the books age.
P1ARE TIL the serjeant at arms of the house of commons in the United Kingdom since 2008 has been a woman, an arab man, then a black man.
Y70eZ TIL of "Looking Glass", a 24 hour a day US military operation that lasted for 29 years
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