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TIL that the finding of a 1,600 year old bog body in England was confused for the body of a woman who disappeared under suspicious circumstances in the 1960s. This caused her ex husband to confess to murdering her. After analysis revealed the body's age, he attempted to recant, but was still jailed.

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LBEr TIL In early 1943, an underground Jewish resistance was formed at Treblinka, a Nazi concentration camp. Some 700 Jews launched the uprising in August 1943. Only 200 managed to escape the camp and only 70 are known to have made it until the end of the war. Treblinka was closed after the uprising.
5YBZD TIL that Phosphorous is a major mineral nutrient and the global reserve would be depleted within the next 50 to 100 years
Zxdo TIL McDonald’s takes drive-thru orders across the country from a centralized call center in California.
dDve8 TIL About the Sovereign Military order of Malta, a internationally recognized sovereign country with 3 citizens which holds no territory, despite this it has two de jure capitals, a palace in Malta and one in Rome
rRay4 TIL Mississippi had a secret police from 1956-1977, designed to fight desegregation