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TIL The infamous scene, in Mel Gibson's film "the Patriot" depicting the herding noncombatant men, women and children into a church, and setting it on fire is based on the SS massacre of French villagers in Oradour-Sur-Glane in 1944. Nothing like this ever happened in the American Revolution.

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xaE7 TIL a irish youth snatched a homeless mans pet bunny from his arms and threw it off the bridge they were standing on, the homeless man immediately jumped after it and resuscitated the bunny before he passed out and firefighters saved him, the youth was later convicted of torture and animal cruelty
QJ1jk TIL that mammoths were known to indigenous Ugric peoples before Europeans, but they conceived of it as a water spirit or a giant burrowing rodent. The word mammoth even comes from an Ugric term meaning "earth horn"
nxOb TIL that writer Michel Dansel (Michel Thaler) wrote a 233 page book without using a single verb. Before him, George Perec had written a whole book without using the “e” vowel, and another one only using the “e” as a vowel!
kJwJm TIL that Key West had a fire chief named Bum Farto that was convicted of drug trafficking and disappeared before his sentencing, never to be seen again.
XEK1r TIL Archaeological studies found evidence of asbestos being used since the Stone Age to strengthen pots. Many developing countries today support using asbestos as a building material. Russia is the top producer, having produced 1 million tons in 2015.