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TIL in 1945 after a compulsory viewing of a film on the holocaust, 1000 German POWs at Camp Butner burned their German uniforms in disgust

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gMYDX TIL 4-year-olds about 200 to 300 questions every day. Warren Berger, the author of A More Beautiful Question, says kids pose a normal of 40,000 questions between the ages of 2 and 5.
KOQXG TIL: The population can hold a General Strike where all laborers stop working to show a complete lack of confidence in the government.
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LkeBp TIL about the 6 Day War, Where the Israelis achieved some absolutely incredible victories against the odds, and defeated a whole region of enemies in 6 days using superior strategy and ferocious ground troops.
6jgw TIL that Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson visited the US in 1965 and made a speech criticizing American foreign policy; the next day, President Lyndon Johnson invited him to Camp David, grabbed him by the lapels, and said, “Don’t you come into my living room and piss on my rug.”