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TIL RAF pilots mistakenly sank ships carrying concentration camp survivors, killing almost 10,000 survivors.

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8awL4 TIL There was the exact same number of 8-year-old girls in Sweden on 1 January 1994 as there were 9-year-old girls in 1 January 1995, none died and none immigrated.
yljV TIL Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was extremely racist & founded the organization with the hope that “feeble-minded” minorities would leave reproduction to “more suitable” races.
ekmE TIL that the Mariner 1 probe, which was meant to orbit Venus, failed because of a missing hyphen in a line of code.
AMLw TIL Switzerland has more millionaires than recipients of social assistance
mAOP TIL six people attempted to steal cobalt-60 rods from a chemical plant in the Chechen Republic. One of them died from radiation exposure thirty minutes after opening the containers for the rods and handling the contents.