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TIL Joe Son (the shoe guy from Austin Powers) is serving life in prison for torture.

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P1Maw TIL In 1942, German submarines sunk a British passenger ship. They surfaced to collect survivors, announced their presence to the allies and sailed under a Red Cross flag. The U-Boats were attacked by allied planes, forcing the submarine to throw all the survivors back into the sea and crash dive.
PYrYe TIL Pope Urban VIII read Galileo's work on physics "Dialogues on the Two Chief World Systems" and was angered by it because he felt that Galileo wrote the character Simplicio (a less-intelligent "scholar") as a cariacture of himself
XrxE TIL that female doctors are projected to outnumber male doctors in the UK within the next decade
OGEaR TIL: there exists a porn parody of “Bob’s Burgers” titled “Bob’s Boners” and most of the shows cast and crew is aware of it.
7rjgX TIL the Guinness Book of World Records lists Deinococcus radiodurans bacterium as the world's toughest organism because of its ability to survive extreme radiation, cold, dehydration, vacuum and acid. These bacteria were found to survive 3 years in outer space based on studies conducted on the ISS.