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TIL During WW1 Sauerkraut was called liberty cabbage.

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b6vWa TIL that British prisoners were considered unsuitable for farm labour as being "particularly arrogant to the local population" and "particularly well treated by the womenfolk"
jNPxj TIL of the Wolfskinder (wolf-children). As the Red Army occupied East Prussia, 2 million German civilians fled. Many adults were killed, leaving behind ~45,000 young children who ran into the forests where they lived as scavengers.
YpGxB TIL blond hair among the dark-skinned indigenous people of the Solomon Islands is caused by homegrown genetic variants distinct from the gene that leads to blond hair in Europeans.
nebar TIL it wasn't illegal to buy or sell human organs until 1984 in the US.
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