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TIL after Czech resistance assassinated brutal Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, the Czech town of Lidice was razed and nearly all of its citizens, pets and livestock were shot. In response to Hitler’s desire to wipe Lidice off the map, Venezuela, Brazil, Panama and Mexico renamed towns to Lidice.

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4X76b TIL Helen Keller was a librarian at public and college libraries including Drexel Institute and Columbia University and authored The Reader's Digest of Books.
XEaJR TIL that service dogs go through a “Public Access Test” where among other things they must stay put as a plate of food is placed 18” from them for one minute and then taken away
9VlD TIL Samuel L. Jackson Has Bad Motherfucker Engraved On His “Star Wars” Purple Lightsaber
9D6X TIL That a Jehovah’s Witness Bethel Elder who was a minister at their world headquarters, was arrested for trying to solicit young boys for sex and evidence found linking the elder to an international child porn ring.
EKDP TIL after Pablo Escobar escaped from prison and was on the run in the jungles of Columbia with his family, it was so damp that he couldn’t find dry kindle to make a fire so he used his money… he burned over $2 Million dollars just to keep him and his daughter warm.