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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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b9AJQ TIL that in 2001, in an attempt to mitigate the HIV and AIDS pаndemic, King Mswati III of Eswatini (Africa's only absolute monarch) banned sexual relations for girls under 18 for a 5-year period. 2 months later, he chose a 17 year-old to become his 13th wife. He was fined a cow, which he duly paid
69g1X TIL: The electric vibrator was first used in 1878, and began to be marketed for home use (without any sexual connotations) in magazines from around 1900, along with other electrical household goods.
KO4Ra TIL that zebra stripes are believed to be protection against biting insects. The pattern disrupts insects vision and they can't make a proper landing on the zebra.
wG5P TIL the oldest bar in the Unites States is also where the British first referred to the US as a sovereign nation.
RZB9 TIL that Russia’s leaders have followed a pattern alternating from bald to hairy for two centuries.