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TIL that the British used Concentration Camps over 40 years before the Germans

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nOwr TIL that there are 97 episodes of Dr Who that there is no existing copy of longer as BBC got rid of them to save storage space.
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dDZAr TIL - Kangaroos don't have belly buttons. Marsupials and monotremes don't feed their unborn offspring via a placenta so have no umbilicus.
R1P8 TIL that Werner Heisenberg worked to develop an Atomic Bomb for Nazi Germany.Claiming that he deliberately attempted to misguide German efforts, transcripts of secret recordings after the war revealed however that it was actually ignorant of what was required to succeed.
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