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TIL that Hitler’s plan for Moscow was to kill all residents and replace it with a lake

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P17PV TIL The word "man" was originally gender-neutral, hence "one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind". In Old English "wæpman" = male, "wifman" = female, "man" = gender-neutral
m1J0P TIL about the massacre of Huta Pieniacka where soldiers of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS brutally murdered more than a thousand ethnic Poles
9w7NQ TIL the US suicide rate has risen steadily over the past 18 years and in 2022 (14.3 per 100,000 people) it reached its highest point since 1941 (15 per 100,000).
d8lEj TIL that “frito paws” or “corn chip paws” can be attributed to Pseudomonas and Proteus bacteria.
woEdP TIL: In WW2, the Japanese developed Defoliation Bacilli Bombs to launch biological attacks on farmland, reservoirs, wells and populated areas using anthrax, plague fleas, typhoid, cholera, and the bubonic plague. Unit 731 created it, and became bioweapons researchers and were not prosecuted.