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TIL your state’s highest paid public employee is probably a football coach

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kOkX1 TIL that Sergio De Simone, a 7 yo child, was deported in 1944 to Auschwitz and was then sent to Neuengamme camp to be experimented on by nazi doctors (under the promise to see his mother again). He was murdered in 1945 with other 20 kids so that the Allies would not find proof of what was going on.
oYLo TIL an Indiana man who repeatedly drugged his wife, raped her in her sleep, and videotaped the assaults over a three year period received no jail time, 8 years home confinement, and a 12 year suspended sentence. Prosecutors had asked for 40 years in prison.
RPLa TIL Vincent Van Gogh did not complete his first major work of art until 5 years before his death, and that his body of work went mostly unnoticed until after his suicide.
7r0Zb TIL Chickens can be successfully hybridized with a number of other birds including "peafowl, chachalacas, capercaillie, grouse, quail, curassows, pheasants and guans."
OG0OY TIL about the Witches Well, a (now) dry fountain installed outside Edinburgh Castle, in 1894, to memorialize the thousands of victims, mostly women, accused of witchcraft who were burned at the stake, nearby. It is the only such memorial to these victims in Scotland.