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TIL: Nazis massacred the entire town of Oradour-sur-Glane, which France never rebuilt and instead kept as a memorial

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KOyJ9 TIL in 1983, 50 corporations controlled 90% of the American media, including magazines, books, music, news feeds, newspapers, movies, radio and television. By 1992 that number had dropped by half. By 2000, six corporations had ownership of most media, and today five dominate the industry.
69bX TIL Dave Grohl was invited to join “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers” in 1994, but declined due to the upcoming debut album of Foo Fighters.
neA5d TIL A New Bird Species “Big Bird” Has Evolved on Galapagos And Scientists Watched It Happen
ywve TIL the highest mountain in Australia is named after the Polish national hero, Tadeusz Kościuszko, who was also a military leader in the American Revolutionary War, and personal friend of Thomas Jefferson.
VMyw0 TIL scientists have discovered an exoplanet that resides within its star's habitable zone, has a temperate climate and contains water at its surface. However, even with spacecrafts much faster than our current ones, it would take a crew of 98 members 6,300 years to reach the Earth-like exoplanet.