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

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OGLLa TIL Princess Alice of Battenberg, the mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, organized soup kitchens and orphanages during the Nazi occupation of Greece. She would give away her own food to people on the street and she hid Jews in her home. She was also born deaf.
e0RB5 TIL that while the Bald Eagle is widely known as a national symbol of the United States, the American Bison is the national mammal. The population of American Bison, once 60+ million, dropped to <600 by 1889, but due to conservation efforts is now 500k and growing.
P1jPO TIL that sea otters have a favorite rock they use to break open shellfish, and they keep it in a pouch under their armpits
rRANo TIL that employers in 31 of 50 United States aren't required to allow their employees to take breaks.
8eLBb TIL about "General Average," a 19th century maritime law requiring all stakeholders (cargo owners, shippers, etc.) to share losses if part of a ship or cargo is sacrificed in an emergency to save the whole.