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TIL of the Hutterites; a religious group similar to the Amish, with the exception that they utilize modern equipment and technology to run complex farming and manufacturing operations on hundreds of colonies across the Western US and Canada.

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ne4yG TIL about one of the rare cases of the Lazarus Syndrome. Walter Williams, 78, from Lexington, Mississippi, declared by a coroner at his home on 26 February 2014. Once at a funeral home, he was found to be moving. The next day he was well enough to be talking with family, but died fifteen days later.
R7oQ1 TIL in 1941, Time Magazine planned to select the Disney character Dumbo as its Person of the Year, even designing a formal portrait for him and the title of "Mammal of the Year". This was until the Pearl Harbor attacks happened, forcing them to instead give the award to President Franklin Roosevelt.
D1mVr TIL A doctor saved life by sucking urine from a man's bladder mid-flight to NYC
e0J4k TIL Karl Marx left a meagre estate worth only £250 or £25K in today's money upon his death despite being extremely famous. However, he had befriended German writer Friedrich Engels throughout his lifetime whom upon his death left Marx's daughters an inheritance worth $4.8 million.
7mkL TIL in 2007 a German pensioner was given a prison term of five months for, amongst other things, training his dog ‘Adolf’ to raise his right paw in a Nazi salute every time the command “Heil Hitler!” was uttered