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TIL that Nazis ordered the Minsk Ghetto to turn over a Jewish resistance leader, Hersh Smolar, hiding in a hospital. They handed over a bloody passport and said he'd been killed in a roundup shooting. The Nazis fell for it. Smolar survived the war.
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Submitted April 02, 2020 at 03:51AM by BigEditorial
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TIL Mel Brooks was a producer on the movie The Elephant Man, but his name was intentionally uncredited as to not lead audiences to believe the film was a comedy
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Submitted April 02, 2020 at 05:12AM by DonutSoda
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TIL The family Scapegoat is often the family member who is non-compliant with mistreatment, the whistle blower, expresses displeasure or advocates for their own needs, and is then demonized as the family problem, thereby establishing a ‘false narrative’ of victim blaming.
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Submitted April 02, 2020 at 05:42AM by chercheur17
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TIL that as recently as 1972, simply being outed for suffering from depression was enough to force Thomas Eagleton to step down from the US vice presidential ticket
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Submitted April 02, 2020 at 06:46AM by ItWillBeRed
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TIL the education minister of Kazakhstan deemed SpongeBob SquarePants too violent for children, labeling the titular character a "self-absorbed hooligan" who "regularly inflicts violence on others in his community and seems to enjoy what he does."
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Submitted April 02, 2020 at 05:26AM by j_shor
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TIL the two oldest cats ever recorded was owned by one guy: Creme Puff (38 years) and Grandpa Rex Allen (34 years). The owner even revealed what he believed to be the key to their longevity, a diet of dry cat food supplemented with broccoli, eggs, turkey bacon, coffee with cream and red wine.
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Submitted April 02, 2020 at 09:56AM by WeAllFuckingFucked
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TIL of the Siege of Weinsberg. A surrender allowed the women to leave with whatever they could carry, so the women lifted their husbands onto their shoulders and walked out.
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Submitted April 02, 2020 at 11:09AM by beerbellybegone
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TIL in 1986 all game designers working for Konami were forbidden to attach their actual name to any project. Instead, they were required to create a fake name to be listed in the game’s credits. This was to prevent them from asking for raises, and keep rival companies from stealing their talent.
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Submitted April 02, 2020 at 12:43PM by Falant
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TIL that the pre-cursor to female smart assistants - Siri, Alexa, etc - was a real telephone switchboard operator called Emma Nutt. Nutt was the first female telephone operator, and her success marked the start of the use of the female voice as an entry-point to accessing technology and information.
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Submitted April 02, 2020 at 02:22PM by roxanneonreddit
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TIL that a deaf painter named Granville Redmond befriended Charlie Chaplin and helped him develop the techniques he used in his silent movies. Chaplin gave Redmond a studio on the movie lot, collected his paintings, and sponsored him in silent roles.
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Submitted April 02, 2020 at 01:09PM by Russian_Bagel
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TIL Animals are increasingly shifting from day to night to avoid people. Even activities like hiking and camping can scare animals, causing them to become more active at night.
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Submitted April 02, 2020 at 03:12PM by amansaggu26
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TIL of the "Lost Battalion," 211 Texas Guardsmen that were surrounded in the Vosges Mts. in 1944. They were saved by the Japanese-American 442nd Regiment, which suffered over 800 casualties while effecting the rescue. Veterans of the 442nd were later made "honorary Texans" in 1962.
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Submitted April 02, 2020 at 07:05PM by SomeGuy671
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Today I learned that auto makers have been adding fake engine noises to their car speaker systems, or even adding entirely separate speaker systems to increase the rumble and depth of the sound of engines to compensate for modern efficiency resulting in less oomph. It’s called a Soundaktor.
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Submitted April 02, 2020 at 09:57PM by money_loo
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TIL Finland's 'housing first' policy requires the government to give people living on the street a free house before any financial aid. This model has proven to get people on their own feet much quicker and is being replicated by other European countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKrZIYBF7ks

Submitted April 03, 2020 at 12:21AM by truehalf
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TIL from 1979 to 1992, Soviets drilled a super deep bore (Kola Superdeep Borehole) that reached 40,230 ft, just to see how deep they could drill.
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Submitted April 03, 2020 at 01:02AM by VladimirVartanian
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TIL about the Memphis Peabody Marching Ducks. Every day at 11am they saunter down a red carpet to the hotel's water fountain, hang out for 6 hours then saunter back up to the rooftop. They've been doing this for over 30 years.
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Submitted April 02, 2020 at 06:55PM by bluestarblush
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TIL Rootbeer is popular in the US, bot not in Europe, because the substance (methyl salycilate) that gives root beer its distinct flavor, is widely used in European dentist mouthwash.
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Submitted April 03, 2020 at 12:59AM by Priamosish
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TIL There was an entire horror movie filmed inside the US Disney parks, without permission. Actors and crew dressed up as tourists and filmed over 2 weeks in each park. Disney chose to ignore the movie, most likely to avoid giving it further attention. It premiered at Sundance.
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Submitted April 03, 2020 at 05:02AM by LegenDove
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