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TIL Gestapo Chief of Frankfurt, Heinrich Baab, told moms worried about their kids, "Don't worry about those Jewish bastards. You'll soon be on your way up the chimney and your troubles will be over."

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ADodg TIL IKEA allowed a giant hide-and-seek game in a store for the 30th birthday of a woman who planned the meet-up on FB; over 1K people signed up to play. More hide-and-seek parties popped up on FB including 19K signing up in Amsterdam. IKEA no longer allows hide-and-seek in their stores.
Wkd5d TIL JFK’s senior thesis, which defends Britain’s pre-WWII actions, actions JFK’s father, Ambassador to Britain at the time, supported, sold 80000 copies. Political theorist Harold Laski declined writing a foreword, stating the book was immature and only being published because of the writer's father
RMYQ TIL Johnny Cage was based upon actor Jean-Claude Van Damme. The creators of Mortal Kombat were hired to make a video game for Van Damme’s film Universal Soldier – when the deal fell through, they created MK and added Johnny Cage as a parody of the situation.
dDNGj TIL After the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster, a new city called Slavutych was built to house those evacuated from Pripyat, and today many of its citizens still work at the former power plant for monitoring, maintenance, and scientific purposes
KYRNw TIL the King of Hanover offered convicts free passage to America with fake passports and names as an alternative to a costly prison sentence