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TIL of Jennifer Teege, a half-black woman that didn’t learn until she was 38 that her grandfather had been Amon Göth, the sadistic Nazi concentration camp commandant dramatized in Schindler’s List

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XERrP TIL that most laundry detergents are blue because the dye cancels out "yellowing".
KdAJ TIL items confiscated by the TSA (including weapons) end up getting sold back to the general public in state-run auctions.
e0GJE TIL that Pop Its were invented by a former classmate of Anne Frank, inspired by imagining "a large field of breasts, that you can push the nipple" from one side to the other
Aaxn TIL astronauts have had to relearn how to play the guitar while on the space station because they tend to overshoot the frets due to weightless arms.
x66K1 TIL about Charles Wicksteed who invented the modern-day slide and swing in the 1920's, installing them at Wicksteed Park in Kettering, Northamptonshire