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TIl that in 1999 George Harrison nearly became the 2nd Beatle to be murdered when an intruder who believed the Beatles were witches broke into his home and stabbed him multiple times and punctured one of his lungs. His wife fortunately fought the attacker off.

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16Rr TIL that during the Siege of Leningrad in WWII, extreme famine led to cannibalistic gangs of Russian civilians that devoured defenseless people. Cannibalism became so prominent that a special division of the Leningrad police force was created to combat it
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