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TIL that the Nuremberg Principals state that simply following the orders of your government does not excuse you from the consequences of violating international law

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Neye TIL of Hitlers plan to collect thousands of Jewish artifacts to build the “Museum of An Extinct Race”
mxkry TIL European dragons are mostly featured as evil creatures, greedily hoarding gold, breathing fire on innocents, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. Asian dragons, however, are benevolent creatures, bringing good luck and prosperity wherever it goes.
5YBjr TIL of a legend of Bodhidharma a Monk who fell asleep wall gazing, to stop it happening again he cut off his eyelids. When his eyelids hit the ground they became the first tea plants. This is apparently why the character for eyelids and tea are the same in Japanese.
QJWGd TIL serial child molester and necrophiliac Jimmy Savile was a marriage counsellor for Princess Diana and Prince Charles
EyKW TIL in 2013, ex-Canadian Minister of National Defense Paul Hellyer claimed that “at least four species” of alien have been visiting Earth for “thousands of years”, and that “there are live ETs on Earth at this present time, and at least two of them are working with the United States government”.