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oBYe8 TIL Radiohead dedicated their album 'The Bends' to the late comedian Bill Hicks
wojN8 TIL The bumblebee bat is the world’s smallest mammal. Found in Thailand and Myanmar, these bats have an average body length of just over 1 inch. Bumblebee bats are currently considered endangered.
xVl4D TIL the Nazis took over a high-end Berlin brothel commonly used by prominent Germans and foreign dignitaries, replaced all the prostitutes with spies, and continued business until a British air raid demolished the building in 1942
PXJw TIL of Stanisława Leszczyńska, a polish midwife who was incarcerated at Auschwitz during WW2. Leszczyńska was advised to euthanize the newborns she delivered. She did not comply, did not kill a single child, and delivered over 3,000 children. Today she is an official candidate for sainthood.
kOXn1 TIL about Jacques Bergier, a jewish white russian with an eidetic memory, emigrant in France, became a genius in many disciplines and science-fiction editor, resistant and prisoner at Mauthausen camp during WW2, his last words were "I am not a legend".