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TIL that a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-II successfully took four pictures of the death camp in action that were smuggled out of the camp by the Polish resistance in a toothpaste tube #1-2 cremation of corpses in a fire pit from the chamber #3 naked women before they enter the chamber #4 miss-aimed

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Y7G9G TIL that contrary to expectations most free people of color lived not in the North but in the South, the Upper South specifically, prior to the American Civil War
m1DxY TIL in 1979 the campaign promise of two guys running for student government included bringing the Statue of Liberty Wisconsin. When they won, they spent $4,000 of University funds creating a replica of Lady Liberty buried up to her eyes in frozen Lake Menota
6akw TIL that Vasily Blokhin, a Soviet Russian Major-General, personally executed at least one Polish soldier every three minutes, totalling 7,000 by the 28th day
d84WK TIL Scientists have found that children who learn Mandarin—a tonal language—as babies are more likely to have perfect pitch than those raised to speak English. The finding supports the idea that “babies can acquire perfect pitch as part of learning a language.”
JYbn4 TIL of the Battle of Empel, deemed a miracle in its time: stranded Spanish troops were surrounded by a Dutch fleet. After finding a painting representing Virgin Mary while digging trenches by a church, the river rapidly froze that night, allowing the Spanish to attack the Dutch and burn their ships.