Deutsche Memokratische Republik ☭

TIL Sonderkommandos were forced labor units of Jewish prisoners in Nazi death camps. Under threat of death, they were compelled to work in gas chambers and crematoria. the SS routinely murdered these prisoners after a few months and replaced them. [ source , comments ]

Superreiche finden in Medien kaum Erwähnung Die Superreichen Deutschlands tauchen kaum in der Medienlandschaft auf und sind somit trotz ihrer massiven ökonomischen Macht meist kein Gegenstand von Diskursen über Ungleichheit. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt die Forscherin Emma Ischinsky vom Kölner Max-Planck-Institut. Ischinsky untersuchte, wie oft die laut dem Manager-Magazin reichsten 1.718 Personen De…

TIL some white blood cells fight infections by suicidally bursting open and casting their own DNA like a net to trap pathogens. [ source , comments ]

TIL that the only person to ever be sentenced to prison over the CIA's torture program was former CIA officer John Kiriakou, the whisteblower who first exposed the program to the media [ source , comments ]

TIL While on set in in 1974, a director praised the make up artist for how well he had prepared Richard Burton for his character's death scene. The make up artist replied he hadn't actually done anything, which prompted them to rush Burton to the hospital. He was dying from kidney failure [ source , comments ]

TIL Rupert Murdoch's university nickname was "Red Rupert". He was a socialist, had a bust of Lenin and was President of Oxford University Labour Club. [ source , comments ]