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TIL Volkswagen used slave labor from Nazi concentration camps to produce their cars during the war.

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XEpbX TIL of Dashrath Manjhi, an Indian man who manually carved a path 110 m long, 9.1 m wide and 7.6 m deep through a hill using only a hammer and chisel over the course of 22 years, shortening travel from his village, Gehlaur, to the town of Gaya from 55km to 15km.
R798l TIL about Sandbranch, a town about 14 Miles from Dallas which hasn't had running water for more than 30 Years
Pd4J TIL that codeine is broken down in the liver to become morphine and that’s why it’s such an effective painkiller.
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