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TIL that lobster used to be the poor people’s protein up until the 1880s, to the point that prisoners complain if they have to eat it more then 3 times a week

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Z8Anp TIL of Jack Van Der Geest- a Dutch resistance fighter who was one of eight people to escape from Buchenwald. Pretending to be dead, at 80 lbs. he hid in a pile of bodies for 11 hours before killing a Nazi, stealing his uniform and a motorcycle to escape.
eLEL TIL Canada’s housing act once declared “Housing is not simply an economic commodity that can be bought and sold according to the vagaries of the market, but a social right”
OoGBa TIL There is 10 times more fresh water in the atmosphere than in all the rivers on Earth combined, and 50 times more tapped in the soil
16rkO TIL Actress and part time Jeopardy host Mayim Bialik was so in demand as a child actress after the movie Beaches that she was cast as the lead in two competing TV shows at the same time, Blossom for NBC and Molloy for Fox .
9KED TIL that of the of the 139 members elected to the 1934 USSR Central Committee of the Communist Party at the 17th Congress, Stalin had 98 executed. Of 1,996 party members present, 1,108 were arrested, and about two thirds of those executed. Thus it was given the name “The Congress of the Condemned”.