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TIL that in 2017 it was revealed that UN peacekeepers operated a child sex ring in Haiti for over 10 years and no one went to jail

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RJg8 TIL that vampire bats will die if they can’t find blood for two nights in a row. Luckily, generous well-fed bats will often regurgitate blood to share with others, in exchange for grooming. This has been noted by many naturalists as an example of reciprocal altruism in nature.
4kVvb TIL That after pleading guilty to and serving 17 years for beating his 92 y.o. grandmother to death with a hammer, William Spengler was released from prison. He later went on a shooting spree and killed/injured six people (including his sister) and burn down 7 homes before taking his own life
9ndr TIL in the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.
ne9m7 TIL that White Peacocks are not albino peacocks, rather they are born all white, due to a genetic variation. Albino animals have a complete lack of color and red or pink eyes, and albino skin is very pale. White peafowl have blue eyes and colored skin. They are not found in the wild.
Oo4P4 TIL of Hedviga Golik a Croatian woman who died in front of her television in her apartment in Zagreb in 1966 and was found 42 years later in 2008