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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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0wgnM TIL of John Laurens, an officer in the Continental Army who strongly opposed slavery, and tried unsuccessfully multiple times to institute black regiments in the struggle for independence. His abolitionist views were admirable, considering his South Carolina birth and father’s ownership of slaves.
vd54 TIL that men get piss all over everything because of Plateau-Rayleigh instability - not necessarily because our aim is off
gMjm8 TIL one of the greatest pianists Alexander Scriabin died at 43 of sepsis caused by herpes on his lips
k86B TIL that James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) was shot six times while fighting for the Canadians during D-Day
m14xM TIL that the oldest surviving Mormon chapel is in Worcestershire, England. It was built in 1836 by the United Brethren, who were then converted to Mormonism by Wilford Woodruff in 1840.