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TIL Rutka Laskier, a Jewish girl from Poland who died in the Nazi Auschwitz death camp at the age of 14, wrote a diary describing her experiences, and her diary was brought to light and published in 2006

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E186p TIL that if you took out all of the empty space from between and within the atoms making up each human being, the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.
bX1E TIL The Ebola virus wiped out 70 to 95% of the 20,000 gorillas in Congo’s d'Odzala national park between 2003 and 2005
gAVD TIL: That on 9/11, after the first plane hit the North Tower of the WTC, people in the South Tower wanted to leave but were advised by a announcement to stay at their desks. Some of those who tried to leave anyway were turned back by security in the building before the exits. 1,120 died.
QNWAM TIL: Hidden Valley ranch dressing is manufactured by Clorox.
Egd47 TIL that the Nazis had plans to establish a museum called "The Museum of an Extinct Race" that would showcase Jewish artifacts and culture as a testament to the eradication of Jewish people. Fortunately, the museum was never realized due to the Allied victory in World War II.