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TIL violence in Hebrew (‘alimut’=אלימות) comes from the word 'elem’=אלם, which means a person who can’t express his feelings through words.

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pYeO TIL the actor for Chucky in the Child’s Play movies, is also Grima Wormtongue from Lord of the Rings. And the voice of Piero in Dishonored.
W7Vm4 TIL in 2009, 6000 camels invaded an Australian town and seized their water supplies
9Yek6 TIL that psychedelics increase nature relatedness and can make you go from Egoism to Ecoism.
BZ7D TIL that during WWII, actress Veronica Lake changed her image in order to encourage women working in factories to adopt more practical, safer hairstyles, even though doing so may have harmed her career.
oRr5Y TIL About Georg Gärtner a member of the Afrika Korps who escaped from his POW camp in the US in September 1945 rather than being repatriated to an area of Germany under Russian control. Living under an assumed identity Gärtner lived in the US before "surrendering" in the 1980s.