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TIL: There's a prison in South Korea that helps overworked Koreans unwind and relax

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1680X TIL that at the start of WW1 famous Serbian General Radomir Putnik was in enemy territory. The Austro-Hungarian Emperor granted him safe passage to Serbia so that he could take charge of the Serbian Army. He was then able to successfully stop the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia.
VQw8 TIL: 4 Marlboro Men Have Died Of Smoking Related Diseases
pnMQ TIL that during the Winter War 1939, one exceptionally burly Finnish ski trooper immobilized a Soviet tank with nothing but a crowbar, prying the treads off by brute force.
epaQE TIL Jennifer Connelly had one of her fingers partially bitten off by a chimpanzee during the filming of Darío Argento's 1985 film Phenomena
YY6d TIL Over the objections of their supervisors and colleagues, Dr. Emil Freireich and Dr. Emil Frei tackled children’s Leukemia with combination chemotherapy with four different kind of drugs. Today, the cure rate for this form of cancer is more than 90 percent.