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TIL In the gas chambers of Auschwitz it could take between 7-20 minutes for the victims to die from the gas while they fought to get out.

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GA9E TIL of the Holodomor, the man made famine inflicted upon the Ukrainians by the Soviets in 1932/33. Western governments ignored it due to the desire to gain the Soviets as an ally in trade and war. By the 1937 census, 11,000,000 Ukrainians were no longer present. Some left, but most starved to death.
logpN TIL: Nuclear powered pacemakers were briefly produced and 9 people still have them inside. When they die the pacemakers and their Plutonium have to be returned to the Department of Energy.
N7LME TIL that when an amateur historian found the bodies of the Romanov family in 1979 it was kept hidden until the fall of the Soviet Union.
KOgw TIL Deja vu has an opposite, it’s called “Jamais vu”
wopMY TIL that In order to avoid being recognized by a previous master, Harriet Tubman once pretended to read a newspaper while traveling by train. The man disregarded the black woman reading on the train since he was aware that Harriet was illiterate.