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TIL a 90-Year-Old Lady Seduced and Killed Nazis as a Teenager

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jNlEv TIL that there is an alive 'castrato'. Javier Medina was chemically castrated due to leukemia at the age of 8 years, later in life he began his musical formation in choirs becoming the first castrato the the world has heard in almost a century.
j6yRp TIL In the 1870s, the city of Liège, Belgium tried to train 37 cats to deliver the mail. It was unsuccessful.
j65AE TIL that Pope Benedict IX was the only pope to be elected more than once. He allegedly participated in wild orgies involving sodomy and bestiality and even sold the Papacy.
wLxv8 TIL George Clooney's first starring role was in "the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" called the "worst film ever made" though now considered a cult schlock classic
4k4NR TIL after the 16th Governor of Hong Kong was given a particularly distasteful Cantonese name, that could interpreted as 'toilet bowl's shit', the government has since provided a very refined translation service for British officials so that their names are indistinguishable from the locals' names.