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TIL that in 1943 three Belgian men held up a train and liberated 200 Jews using only one gun and some wire cutters.

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P19ZV TIL that Douglas Kelley, psychologist who examined the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials, committed suicide in front of his family by taking potassium cyanide.
yQGJv TIL that wild horses no longer exist. Only feral.
ZwXB TIL that during the Qin Dynasty in China, government officials would use fingerprint analysis at a crime scene to help identify potential perpetrators, as they knew that no two people have identical fingerprints
WkB1X TIL velcro was invented by a Swiss electrical engineer after a hunting trip in the Alps in 1941. He took a close look at the burrs of burdock that stuck to his clothes and his dog’s fur and developed the technology for commercial use in the 1950s.
8WmZ TIL President John Quincy Adams owned an aligator which he kept in the White House