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Salamo Arouch: The Jewish boxer forced to fight at Auschwitz in WWII

by HistoryBuff July 5, 2022, 9:24 pm

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today I learned that the US forced hundreds of thousands of Japanese people into concentration camps during WW2

by whatilearned July 3, 2022, 10:01 pm

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TIL That the term ‘Jadotville Jack’ was used to describe members of A Company 35th Batallion Irish Army. The term was in reference to the unit’s forced surrender after a siege from a numerically superior mercenary force and the Irish government/UN’s refusal to decorate any survivors of the battle.

by whatilearned June 28, 2022, 3:37 pm

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TIL Leon Lederman, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics and author of The God Particle, faced overwhelming medical debt near the end of his life and was forced to sell his Nobel Prize to pay it off

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 8:38 pm

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TIL for the censorship case against Ulysses (a notoriously hard novel to read), the US trial judge forced himself read the entire book so he could judge it properly

by whatilearned June 21, 2022, 11:03 am

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TIL Wells Fargo was forced by the feds to rehire a whistleblower employee that reported fraud, and pay him $5.4 million in damages.

by whatilearned June 21, 2022, 1:02 am

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I forced my 3 year old sister to watch 1 hour of 3d Saul Goodman

by CopyPastaArchive June 15, 2022, 9:05 pm

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What is something you feel like you’re forced to like?

by QuestionGuy June 12, 2022, 8:49 am

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TIL of the August 26, 1980 Harvey’s Lake Tahoe casino bombing. 3 men in maintenance uniforms rolled in a device covered in cloth labeled IBM to a 2nd story empty office with a note demanding $3 million. The FBI was forced to detonate it after failing to defuse it

by whatilearned June 7, 2022, 2:51 am

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If you were forced to elect any fictional Villain to become the President of the United States for a full term, Who would you Pick?

by QuestionGuy June 4, 2022, 8:06 pm

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TIL of the Goa Inquisition in Portuguese India which enforced Catholic Orthodoxy from 1561 to 1812. Primary targets were Hindus who were forced to convert under imprisonment and starvation. All records were destroyed by the Portuguese in 1812 and exact number of casualties still remain unknown today

by whatilearned June 1, 2022, 10:09 am

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TIL Rosemary Kennedy was forced back into her mother’s birth canal, depriving her brain of oxygen. As a child, she failed to reach developmental milestones; at 23, she underwent a frontal lobotomy to modify behavior, leaving her mentally crippled. She was institutionalized for the rest of her life.

by whatilearned May 31, 2022, 8:22 am

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