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TIL that a man raped his son’s rapist for revenge.

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mxNVy TIL Roy Edward Disney was the last member of the Disney family to be actively involved in the company. At the time of his death in 2009 he held more than 16 million shares (about 1% of the company)
WA09 TIL it has been 20 minutes since the Cubs last won the World Series
pYQm8 TIL that in 1828, a surgeon who had previously been in Andrew Jackson's militia during the War of 1812 started keeping track of every "violent and abusive quarrel" Jackson had caused or partaken in. The final list accumulated to nearly 100.
neRv9 TIL the Polish Scouts fought the nazis in the Warsaw uprising, avoiding booby traps of poisoned candy and then went on to resist communism up to the fall of the soviet Union.
M7GN7 TIL that a piece of a giant squid was recovered by the French ship Alecton in 1861, leading English naturalist Henry Lee and others to come to the conclusion that giant squids were responsible for the legend of the Kraken.