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TIL that Noah Glass was one of Twitter's Early Founders

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mK0O TIL the Nazis’ post war plans for the USSR consisted of killing over 100 million “racially inferior Slavs” by extermination through labor, starvation, and deportation while enslaving the remaining survivors as illiterate serfs on German plantations.
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L8GZ TIL of Tazmamart, a Moroccan secret prison for political prisoners who were cramped in single-person underground cells 24 hours a day and not allowed any light or human contact
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