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TIL When the Americans took the Concentration Camp, Dachau, they Gunned down the Surrendering Germans and took no Prisoners for a Month

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4kejJ TIL that until 1948, the Olympics gave out medals in "Art Competitions" including painting, music, literature, sculpturing, and architecture.
Lkd4Q TIL critics who had said that piano recordings by Matsuzawa were some of the worst ever, went on to say that those by Joyce Hatto were some of the best ever, even though they were in fact the very same tapes.
KYw9E TIL that 17th century Catholic scholars thought it possible that Jesus's detached foreskin ascended to Heaven and became the rings of Saturn.
VMLa4 TIL, that before he got into writing massive-selling thrillers, James Patterson worked for advertising firm J. Walter Thompson, where he is credited with coming up with the jingle “I’m a Toys R Us Kid.”
nelLB TIL - In the 1940s, the Soviet Union began the trend of using "whataboutism" where instead of addressing concerns or questions, Soviet leaders would respond with, “What about…” and then draw attention to unfavorable events in the U.S. and other parts of the Western world