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TIL The Nazis greatly admired the policies of segregation and Jim Crow in the American South, and their anti-Jewish laws were directly inspired by American policy towards black people

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BgXJD TIL that the United States consumes more oil per day than China and India combined, although the US population is just a little over 10% of the total population of those two countries.
8aXmZ TIL Canada has an entire TV channel completely dedicated to rotisserie chicken
jevn TIL: Under the Third Reich, Aryan mothers who devoted their lives to having children were awarded the Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter (Mother’s Cross) and were respected civil servants who were saluted on the streets by Hitler’s Youth.
R79Pl TIL that a CEO during the 2008 recession instead of laying off some employees, furloughed all them for a few weeks: “it’s better for us all to suffer a little than for some to suffer a lot.”
Y7KxW TIL: Entrepreneur Li Bo built the first sex doll brothel in China and had thousands of guests. It cost $15-57/ hour and features rooms like prison cells, hospitals, and classrooms. It made national headlines, but was shut down 3 years later by law enforcement. Criticisms involved sanitary concerns