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TIL: While the FBI was searching for Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner they found 8 other bodies of missing black men killed by the Klan.

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4X00a TIL even though a Rubiks cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 (43 quintillions) different combinations, it can always be solved in 20 moves or less.
lE6a TIL A South Korean subway driver told passengers to remain inside while a fire was spreading in the station. He then fled with the master key leaving the train doors closed and sealing passengers inside. Out of 198 people who died in the station, 79 were trapped in his train.
gMw7 TIL a rare condition exists where the body is completely paralyzed, while the mind remains normal and fully aware. The symptoms are sometimes mistaken as death. it’s called “locked-in state syndrome.
QJO9M TIL that an absolute legend of a bureaucrat (René Camille) saved countless lives under Nazi occupied France. He consistently sabotaged tabulating machines that IBM were happily supplying to the Nazis to round up 'undesirables' and deliberately staged huge bureaucratic cock-ups. He died in Dachau.
m1lwv TIL- For every 1 person living on earth, there are 15 dead people. Over 100 billion humans have been and gone before us.