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TIL Bayer used slave labor and tested drugs on prisoners in Auschwitz

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OolrL TIL according to some German soldiers interviewed after the D Day landings, the most amazing thing about the allied invasion was not the immense scale, or anything like the surprise of tanks driving out of the sea, but the fact that the allies did not need to use any horses.
NXjkb TIL that Magnolia were named after French Botanist Pierre Magnol
OG1ZR TIL one royal family is estimated to control wealth worth over $1.4 trillion
8Vd4 TIL that when electricity was first used for other purposes other than lighting electricity companies charged more for non lighting electricity. This lead to people creating light bulb sockets adapters to plug in other devices like toasters.
loKba TIL that 3% of all movies in the 1960s featureed quicksand