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TIL pillbugs are actually crustaceans and not insects
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TIL about Oradour-sur-Glane, a French village where Nazi troops massacred its 643 inhabitants as collective punishment for RĂ©sistance activity. Women and children were burned alive in a church, while men were taken to barns, shot in the legs and set on fire as well.
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TIL Stranger Things was allegedly based on Project Montauk, a supposed secret government program involving the kidnapping of children for use in mind control experiments.
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TIL that two brothers re-gifted the same pair of pants for over 12 Xmases, in increasingly difficult ‘wrapping’ that included a crushed AMC Gremlin with a note saying: “Merry Christmas, the pants are in the glove box”.
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TIL that Richard II is the first English monarch for whom a contemporary painting survives.
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TIL that Princess Diana's late boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed, who was also in the fatal car crash in 1997, was first cousins with Jamal Khashoggi.