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TIL that Deutsche Bank helped financed the construction of Auschwitz, the IG Farben chemical plant that supplied gas to concentration camps, and profited off of stolen gold and property from Holocaust victims.

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p8dXN TIL that the Bramley apple, a widespread cooking apple, and all of its trees originated from a single tree that was planted by accident 200 years ago. That tree is still alive today
7r8op TIL Christopher Sabat, the voice actor for Kuwabara in Yu Yu Hakusho, also voiced 18 of the characters from Dragon Ball Z.
NXLON TIL the dumb and dumber mocking bird song is a real song.
DQPwP TIL that there is a history of soap being made from human corpses
0wD8j TIL The actor who played "Flounder" in Animal House, Stephen Furst, was a pizza delivery boy in Hollywood when he landed the role. He taped a photo of himself inside the lid of each pizza he delivered in the hopes of being discovered.