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TIL that through-wall radar exists which allows you to look at a 3d representation of people and objects through many materials including concrete block

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Bgpwe TIL the most successful car heist in history was carried out by North Korea - they ordered 1000 Volvos from Sweden and simply did not pay them back
1agRX TIL in 2003 a herd of wild elephants released a group of captive antelopes from a game reserve in Southeast Africa. The matriarch of the herd undid all of the gate's metal latches with her trunk & then pushed it open. The antelope took their chance & ran into the bush followed by the elephants.
e0DrJ TIL a study about class differences in 18th & 19th century England, showed that on average, a wealthy 16-year old boy was 8.5 inches taller than a poor 16-year old boy, as a result of malnourishment and living standards
egDk TIL that geomagnetic storms are correlated with an increase in suicide all over the world
kOkX1 TIL that Sergio De Simone, a 7 yo child, was deported in 1944 to Auschwitz and was then sent to Neuengamme camp to be experimented on by nazi doctors (under the promise to see his mother again). He was murdered in 1945 with other 20 kids so that the Allies would not find proof of what was going on.