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TIL In addition to 6m Jews, the Nazis killed up to 11m others who did not fit the Aryan criteria

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b69Bp TIL in 1944, countries agreed with the US to settle their international accounts in dollars to have gold converted at a fixed rate of $35 per ounce. In 1971, President Nixon announced the US would no longer do it, thus completely abandoning the gold standard. This was known as the 'Nixon Shock'.
W7VPo TIL some of the last German Soldiers to fight the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin were in fact foreign volunteers of the Waffen SS. Frenchmen of the 33rd Charlemagne Division and Scandinavians of the 11th Nordland Division joined together as some of the last defenders of the Third Reich.
ARGo TIL, John F. Kennedy actually had more than one assassination attempt. The first one was by a former postal worker. He built a bomb but didn’t detonate it because Kennedy had his wife and children with him.
4M5o TIL Honduras, a country of 7 million people, has 8-10 murders per day, 70% of which the government claims to be due to the war on drugs.
ROm1 TIL: In 2012 a Bumble Bee Tuna worker was cooked in a pressure cooker along with 12,000 pounds of canned tuna