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TIL of the White Feathers Movement, in which feminists and suffragettes shamed men who refused to fight in World War 1

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GYlYg TIL the creator of Mad Max is also the creator of Happy Feet.
6EPEZ TIL in South Africa and India, biting ants were used as surgical sutures by getting the ants to bite on both sides of the wound, then breaking off the body.
rWlw TIL that in 1898, a Bayer businessman named a drug they’d developed, “Heroin,” as it was expected to be a heroic cure for tuberculosis. Ironically, illicit heroin use later contributed to an epidemic resurgence of the disease.
wr96 TIL in 1973, a nurse in India was reduced to vegetative state after she was choked with a “Dog Chain and sodomized” by the hospital’s sweeper. The convict served 14 yrs sentence, while she still continues to be in the same state after 42yr. Supreme Court declined plea for euthanasia by an activist
p8MJ8 TIL the Reichstag, which fell into disrepair after World War II but was rebuilt after the reunification of Germany, contains Soviet graffiti as "historical reminders," including one which reads "I fuck Hitler in the ass."