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TIL of the Sonderkommando photographs - four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 by an inmate in Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.

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nleY TIL That after a test preview for Apollo 13, an audience member said he hated the movie because it had a “typical Hollywood ending” and that the crew should have not survived.
QJ8Od TIL in 1929, German doctor Werner Forssmann performed the first human cardiac catheterisation on himself. After ignoring his boss and tricking a nurse into helping him, he inserted a catheter into his right arm before calmly walking to the x-ray department. He was later awarded with the Nobel Prize.
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yZXJ TIL the same voice actor portrayed Chief Quimby in Inspector Gadget, Mr. Wilson and Ruff in Dennis the Menace, Egon Spengler, Destro, Pepe Le Pew in Space Jam, The Brain, Salem in Sabrina, the Narrator in Johnny Bravo, Master Fung in Xiaolin Showdown, Morbo + Kif in Futurama, and the King in Frozen.
wZkM TIL that for decades, the mayor of Hiroshima writes a letter of protest every time a nuclear test is conducted, as a plea to end the use of nuclear weapons.