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TIL about Fairy Rings. Naturally-ocurring rings or arcs of fungi that are frequently found in forestal areas, and they also have been formerly linked to witches or the Devil in old folklore or

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VMo90 TIL that in 1995 a Florida man buried 9 "unwanted" day-old puppies alive in a paper bag, in full view of their tethered mother. Mama dog broke free later and began frantically digging the ground and retrieving puppies, which luckily attracted the attention of a neighbor who phoned police.
e0Mdb TIL Freddie Oversteegen, her sister, and friend Hannie Schaft lured German soldiers during WW2 to the woods under the pretense of a romantic overture and then killed them
gr5lW TIL about Project 100,000, a controversial 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards.
mxbRO TIL the original story of Aladdin was based in China, was not an actual Arabian Night folk tale and was considered controversial for multiple reasons
BrG6W TIL Hugh Thompson Jr., a US Army Major, helped ended the My Lai Massacre with his helicopter crew including Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn. They were remembered and revered in Vietnam with their depiction in the short Vietnamese film "The Sound of the Violin in My Lai".