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TIL of the Edelweiss Pirates. A proto-hippie youth group in Germany which fought Nazi's as they frolicked through the countryside playing guitars and singing Anti-Nazi folk songs at campfires. They sheltered escaped concentration-camp prisoners and Allied soldiers in a program of armed resistance.

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VXrD TIL that Voltaire, who was strongly against the Christian church, was asked by a priest to renounce Satan while on his deathbed. His response: “Now is not the time for making new enemies.”
4kBZJ TIL Chinese researchers developed a face-identification model to tell giant pandas apart
Vl6Z TIL there’s a time-honored tradition of allowing brewery employees all the free beer they wish while working: It’s called Der Sternewirth
7EP7 TIL there are more Wikipedia articles on Antarctica than all but one of the African countries
PYVOO TIL Hundreds of skeletons are scattered around a site high in the Himalayas, Roopkund lake, in India