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TIL male bees ejaculate with such force that it rips apart their organs, killing them instantly.

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oBalY TIL a British nurse named Edith Cavell helped treat soldiers regardless of their nationalities in WWI. She also helped them escape from German occupied Belgium. When caught, she refused to lie about her actions and was executed by firing squad.
6ENGl TIL of Paul Alexander, one of the last few Polio survivors. He's confined to an Iron Lung and paralyzed from the neck down, yet managed to graduate from law school and wrote his memoir using only his mouth.
eVnb TIL that if he were alive today, J.D. Rockefeller would be worth 663.4 billion dollars.
OGgXe TIL: The Swingjugend was a German counter culture group of teenagers who admired the American way of life and thought the Hitler's Youth was uncool compared to the swing scene. They called their opposition the "Homo Youth" and too chaste (virgins). Their leaders were sent to the camps.
BrDZy TIL that the fashion designer Hugo Boss was an early member of the nazi party from 1931,2 years before hitler came to power. His company produced uniforms for the SS, SA and Hitler Youth and used forced labour from Polish and French prisoners-of-war.