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TIL a Roman serial killer was raped by a specially trained giraffe then torn apart by animals as a form of punishment

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JYXb4 TIL Vasily Arkhipov was the sole officer aboard a submarine who refused to authorize a nuclear strike, presumably saving the world from nuclear destruction during the cold war.
6WLW TIL Wal-Mart once pulled Midge, a doll in the Barbie line, from the shelves due to concerns she was pregnant with no wedding ring and it would promote teen pregnancy.
m1p9E TIL that the Ganges river receives around 19 billion gallons (72 billion liters) of sewage a day, most of which is untreated.
1avrW TIL About Adolf Wölfli, a psychotic mental patient who spontaneously took up drawing to calm himself. His work included a monumental and epic illustrated book of 45 volumes, 25,000 pages, 1,600 illustrations, and 1,500 collages in which he narrated his own imaginary life story.
VBJ7p TIL that in the 1994 Caribbean Cup, a rule change plus the need to win by two goals resulted in Grenada trying to score in either net and Barbados defending both nets.