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TIL Croatia's children concentration camp in Sisak was so brutal that even the Nazis questioned it. Some children were killed by being given poisoned milk or gruel laced with caustic soda.

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0E0j TIL Africanized bee, known as Killer bees, are breed hybrids that accidentally escaped lab quarantine and since then have spread throughout the Americas.
Zw9G TIL in 1996 McDonalds attempted to introduce a hamburger called the “Arch Deluxe,” a higher-end burger marketed specifically to adults. It was released with one of the most expensive advertising campaigns to date, and was a complete failure.
oBj9A TIL: In his college days, Steve Wozniak used a blue box (an illegal phone hacking device) to call the Vatican. He pretended to be Henry Kissinger and asked to speak with the Pope but was denied because the Pope was asleep.
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