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TIL A blond-haired doll in Nazi SS uniform is on display at Ravensbrück, a concentration camp staffed by female guards

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g68y TIL That there is a Japanese word that refers to “the act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up with other unread books”
JgW4 TIL there is a “Flying Squid” that has “been observed to cover distances as long as 50 m above the surface of the water uniquely utilizing jet-propelled aerial locomotion.”
gE8A TIL that the first person killed on September 11th was an Israeli special operations veteran and MIT graduate student who immediately attempted to stop the hijacking of Flight 11.
nxP7 TIL that motion sickness is caused by the brain thinking the body has been poisoned (the usual cause for what it feels not being the same with what it sees) and that vomiting is the body’s defence mechanism against toxins
Zx1a TIL the North Korean government is one of the largest counterfeiters of U.S. $50 and $100-dollar bills, dubbed “superdollars,” as they are so close to the real thing that they’ve been referred to as “just U.S dollars not made by the U.S. government.”