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TIL Ralph Ignatowski a US Marine who was captured by the Japanese in WW2. He was tortured in a cave for 3 days, his eyes and ears cut out, his teeth and skull smashed in. Many wounds to his stomach that was repeatedly stabbed with a bayonet, and his penis had been severed and stuffed into his mouth.

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5Ylm9 TIL that a lawyer defending a man accused of murder accidentally shot himself while demonstrating how the victim might have accidentally shot himself. His client was cleared.
KONlR TIL that Naftaly Frenkel was a prisoner in a Soviet Union work camp who proposed that inmates' food rations be linked to their rate of production. He was promoted to guard and eventually commandant. He would later oversee construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal by forced labor.
PY6VL TIL there was no World Series in 1904, because the New York Giant’s owner refused to let them play against what he thought was an inferior team, the Boston Red Sox
XE9pj TIL Johann Trollmann who was a gypsy boxing champion put in a labour camp in Nazi Germany, was forced to fight against a feared ex-criminal and prison guard and won despite being malnourished and exhausted. The still bitter prison guard sought revenge by murdering Johann with a shovel later.
0e9M TIL Mark Wahlberg dropped out of school at 13, sold drugs, had two cars before he was old enough to drive and at 16 was arrested for attempted murder (while under the influence of angel dust)… and yet he still became what he is today