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TIL that the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz revolted by throwing three SS personnel into the crematorium furnace alive.

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DQxaj TIL The story of Jeronimus Cornelisz : a litteral sociopath took advantage of a mutiny and a shipwreck in 1629 to establish a brutal dictatorship on a desert island, leading to the murder of 124 surviving men, women and children.
j6MkM TIL Longyearbyen, Norway is the world's northernmost settlement with a population greater than 1,000. There is a ban on cats, a monthly alcohol purchase limit, and a requirement to carry a rifle while outside for protection from polar bears.
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