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TIL at least 100 people have been murdered in hate crimes from members of a single White Supremacist online forum

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J5AB TIL of Otto Wels, a Social Democratic politician of Weimar Germany who was an outspoken opponent of Hitler. He was the sole person to speak against the Enabling Act after the Reichstag Fire. He died in exile in France in the early days of World War II.
GAnx4 TIL that Ayn Rand actually hated the libertarians and anarcho-capitalists of her time.
BXZL TIL that astronauts must have good airflow around them when they sleep, otherwise they, “…could wake up oxygen-deprived and gasping for air, because a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide had formed around their heads.”
l759a TIl in October 2022 an arsonist set fire to easter island, charring and cracking the sacred moai figures and doing irreplaceable damage to the figures
JYQQB TIL that the Shaggy defense, AKA "It Wasn't Me", is a real legal strategy often cited in criminal proceedings and legal writing as such.