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TIL, South Dakota had a large advertising campaign: “Meth — we’re on it”

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dkMQ TIL the Indonesian Communist Party was once the largest non-governing Communist Party in the world, and was effectively dissolved through a US-supported mass killing of 500,000 of its members.
yYd8 TIL there was a Jewish boxer named Salamo Arouch imprisoned at Auschwitz. He was forced to fight fellow prisoners. The losers were sent to the gas chambers or shot. He survived more than 2 years and 200 fights, eventually being released when the camp was liberated.
4Xvrb TIL that on the 22nd of August 1914, 27,000 Frenchmen lost their lives attacking the Germans. It is the bloodiest day in French history.
OG81X TIL the man invented revolving doors in the US did so because he was tired of being chivalrous and holding doors for women
LQOn0 TIL that Mark DeFriest, known as the Houdini of Florida, is a prisoner in the Florida State Prison. His original four-year sentence has since developed into 34 years for 13 escape attempts, 7 of them successful, and hundreds of disciplinary reports.