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TIL that rainwater is almost never pure and that in some areas the individual raindrops form around airborne bacteria.

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OoMKa TIL German interrogator Hanns Schraff didn't torture his American prisoners during WWII. Instead he would befriend them, take them on walks in the forest or the local zoo, and even allow one to fly a plane. He was so good that prisoners didn't realise they were revealing secret informations.
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