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TIL 250,000 to 500,000 Gypsies were murdered during the Holocaust despite initially being classed as Aryans under Nazi racial ideology

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JYO1V TIL that religion was a controversial topic in the 1960 election, with JFK as the first Catholic candidate (still the only Catholic US President to date) against Protestant Nixon, due to the anti-Catholic sentiment at the time.
v1Pp4 TIL that an author wrote 'Vienna without Jews' in 1922. 16 years later, jews were hunted down under Hitler's command
Ypo7r TIL the Bactrian camel is able to withstand temperatures as low as -40 °C in winter to 40 °C in summer by shedding its winter coat extremely rapidly. They have a remarkable ability to go without water for months at a time, and can move at speeds of up to 40 mph.
E1Nl0 TIL of Freedom Day: On Feb 3, 1964, nearly half a million New York City school students protested against segregation. The largest protest for civil rights in US history, it was twice as large as Martin Luther King Jr's March on Washington.
YpnVG TIL that the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster from WW2 Britain was never widely distributed during the war, and only became famous when a bookseller found an original poster in a box of old books in 2000, and commercialized it.