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TIL that the Nazis planned on preserving the Jewish quarter of Prague in order to establish an “exotic museum of an extinct race”

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9mNG TIL During WWII, the Dutch resistance recruited teenage girls to seduce and kill Nazis
Ryww TIL people on the Solomon Islands have a gene that causes blonde hair, despite their dark skin. This gene is unrelated to the one that causes blondeness in European peoples and evolved independently.
1aJPr TIL that a man in Sudan was forced to MARRY A GOAT by his local council of elders after being caught in the act with it by the goat's owner. He also had to pay a $50 dowry to the owner. It is not clear if they are still together.
69bN8 TIL Mark Twain in "The United States of Lyncherdom", asserts "moral cowardice" is "the commanding feature of the make-up of 9,999 men in the 10,000" and "no revolt against a public infamy or oppression has ever been begun but by the one daring man". Twain felt the States were not ready for essay.
neGw7 TIL in 1987 Jeremy Clarkson used to write Amstrad CPC video game reviews for the magazine Amstrad Computer User.