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TIL in 2011 a Soviet war memorial in Sofia, Bulgaria was vandalized overnight, with the soldiers depicted as American pop culture characters and the spray-painted caption "Abreast with the Times"

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X0axj TIL about François de Civille, a 16th-century Frenchman who survived being shot in the head, buried alive, thrown out a window, and left in a dung heap for three days before being rescued by his cousin.
WkW59 TIL that the 17 y/o sole survivor of a plane that exploded in midair over a Peruvian forest, fell 10,000 ft strapped to her seat and only received a concussion and popped eye capillaries. She swam/floated down a river for 10 days and was mistaken for a river spirit by her eventual local rescuers.
8eXdb TIL couples in India are likely to spend one fifth of their total lifetime earnings on their wedding
Z80xQ TIL About White House Journalist Lester Kinsolving, Who Repeatedly Raised the Issue of The AIDs Epidemic During Reagan Administration Press Conferences, Only to be Ridiculed with Homosexual Slurs by Press Secretary Larry Speakes.
O4aL TIL that the most requested book to be banned for the last two years was the Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey