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TIL Isla Kock also known as the “The Bitch of Buchenwald” was a Nazi who was known for her sadistic abusive methods towards her prisoners in which she often killed them and had them skinned alive to use to make items such as Lamp Shades. The Purse she proudly carried around was made from human skin

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D7dY TIL: That a British Man rescued 669 children destine for death camps from Nazis, arranged for them to have homes and smuggled them to Britain, and at 104 he is still alive today.
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wLwKo TIL that 93% of people who ever existed on this planet are now dead ,and about 50% of them were kiled by malaria.
0dMBN TIL that a 2022 study proposed that Bruce Lee may have died from hyponatraemia - a low concentration of sodium in blood, which is caused by excessive water intake. At the time of his death, Lee had reportedly been existing on a near-liquid diet of mostly juices.
e0BjE TIL J.P. Morgan died with an estimated fortune of “only” $80 million (approx. $1.5 billion in 2015 dollars), upon hearing this John D. Rockefeller remarked “and to think, he wasn’t even a rich man”.