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TIL on October 14th, 1944, doomed death camp prisoners at Sobibór managed to lure numerous high ranking Nazi officers into separate workshops, on the pretext of fitting them with new boots and clothes. They then hacked their defenseless captors to death with various tools and objects, one by one.

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oRe98 TIL Harvard punter / receiver Pat McInally was the only NFL player to score a perfect 50/50 on the Wonderlic intelligence test in 1975. When he took it again in 2007 and got 1 question wrong he quipped "Missed one. Not a bad score after six concussions."
B4Ey TIL that the oldest person ever to live made a deal with a 47 year old lawyer at age 90; he would pay her 2500 francs per month in return for her apartment when she died. He paid more than double the apartment’s worth, and ended up dying two years before her.
epaZk TIL that Mae West did a cover of the Beatles song 'Day Tripper'
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pYdVe TIL FedEx planes are equipped with anti aircraft defence systems.