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TIL that Josef Mengele's skeleton is now used as an educational aid for students studying medicine at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

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KYLXJ TIL in 1971 a group of activists broke into an FBI office in Delaware and got away with 1000 secret documents. The plan was to do the heist during "the match of the century" between Ali and Frazer, predicting that security would be glued to their tv's for the match, and thus distracted
4koww TIL local Cretan resistance in WWII was so great that civilians would attack Axis paratroopers as they were landing with knives, axes, scythes and even their bare hands.
P7bG TIL the Melbourne, Australia holds the biggest Italian population outside of Italy and the largest Greek population outside of Greece
maxp TIL A prisoner at Guantanamo Bay received letters from his family members, and prison staff redacted all statements such as, “we miss you daddy”, “we love you daddy”, and “we’re thinking of you” from the letters in order to increase the ammount of hopelessness and despair he was feeling.
GL64 TIL American intelligence analysts were able to identify Soviet military bases in Cuba from aerial photos during the Cold War. Cuban military bases had baseball fields; the Soviets had soccer fields.