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TIL During WW2 a Polish woman risked her life to conceal a Jewish man and his wife because the man once let her take some goods from his shop when she didn’t have enough money to pay him.

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9BYG TIL that in the 19th Century, Americans purposely filled their parks with squirrels for entertainment purposes. They were rarely found outside of the forest beforehand.
607W TIL that the original take of the famous WW2 photo “Raising a Flag over the Reichstag” had to be edited before it was published because the Soviet soldier could be seen wearing multiple watches which had been stolen from German citizens
6EAOQ TIL Between 100,000 and 200,000 people lived in Teotihuacan around 600 A.D., making it one of the world’s largest cities, filled with single- and multifloor apartment compounds. The ethnic identity of Teotihuacan’s inhabitants is not known and no writing system has been discovered there
ey5 TIL. Scientists have used Atomic clocks to show Einsteins theory of relativity is correct. The higher you live above sea level the faster you age.
KOWyG TIL Quigley Down Under and Lightning Jack are directed by the same person, one an American Cowboy in Australia, the other an Australian Cowboy in America.