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TIL In WW2 Germany, Lilly Wust, a mother of 4 married to a Wehrmacht soldier, had a forbidden romance with Felice Schragenheim, a Jewish female resistance fighter. Felice was captured (and later killed), but Lilly continued to risk her own life by helping the resistance.

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YVVx TIL Nixon’s family was poor. They couldn’t afford lavish vacations. And there weren’t that many national parks. So he corrected that by creating the EPA.
OoNbL TIL That the phrase 'flying saucer' used as a substitute for an UFO is the result of a mistaken newspaper report in 1947 of the first well-known UFO sighting by the business mogul Kenneth Arnold who said the speeding aerial was crescent-shaped but moved "like saucers skipping on water".
pmV4 TIL The creators of South Park only start making a new episode 6 days prior to the episode’s air date. In 17 seasons, they have only missed the deadline once, when South Park Studios lost power.
M6O8 TIL of the Birmingham 6, a group of men incorrectly convicted of bombing a UK pub. The men provided false confessions to police after being interrogated for up to 12 hours (without any breaks, food or sleep) and physical abuse including punches, police dogs and a mock execution.
4kJKR TIL Martin Sommer, a convicted concentration camp guard who (allegedly) had two priests crucified, became a double amputee in military service and was released from his life sentence in prison in 1971 because no prison was equipped to continue treating his war-related injuries.