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TIL about Hanns Scharff, a German Luftwaffe interrogator during the Second World War who is considered the "father of modern interrogation techniques". After the war he became a famous mosaic artisan who amongt other things created the 15-foot arched cinderella mosaic walls in Disneyland

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g7B7 TIL in the 1920’s Soviet biologist Ilia Ivanov carried out a series of experiments to create human - ape hybrids. 5 Human women had volunteered to be inseminated with the sperm of Tarzan, a 26-year-old male orang-utan and to carry his babies.
VVnG TIL in 16th century China, when the imperial army and navy failed to defeat Japanese pirates, Shaolin monks were dispatched to get rid of them. In one battle, the monks were especially ruthless, killing every single opposing pirate over a ten day period, including one’s wife that tried to flee
Wk0gd TIL During the course of baseball game, a fan asked another for a knife so he could sharpen his pencil. Just as he leaned over to take the knife, a foul ball struck him on the hand and drove the blade into chest the chest of a man between them. He bled to death within moments.
EOBp TIL You cant sue your bank…no matter what they do.
wo81 TIL that if the North Koreans used their largest nuclear bomb on the Empire State Building, it wouldn’t even reach Central Park