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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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nWJ5P TIL Los Angeles was the first city in America to successfully embrace sushi. In 1966, a man named Noritoshi Kanai and his Jewish business partner, Harry Wolff, opened Kawafuku Restaurant in Little Tokyo.
p8DMN TIL The first virus that attacked MS-DOC is called Brain and was written by two brothers, Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi, from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan in 1986.
7r4Np TIL that the word “huh” is a universal word, with almost identical meaning across 31 languages.
loKkA TIL of Edith Head, Academy Award-Winning Disney Costume Designer, whom “The Incredibles” character Edna Mode is based off of
WkQxN TIL Medieval art depicted characters dying or being killed with unusually calm expressions because it was a common belief that that such a response to death was Christlike, as Jesus did not panic on the cross.