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TIL The last leader of East Germany is still alive and still defends his former country despite serving in prison for several years over Cold War crimes

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PY0Xe TIL During the Korean War, after failing to weaken the Chinese forces through attrition, the United States carried out the most concentrated bombing campaign in history which killed over 20% of North Korea's population and thoroughly wiped out "every city, down, village" in the country.
N76RP TIL John McTiernan (director of Die Hard and Predator) was sentenced to a year in prison in 2013, because on the set of his 2002 remake of Rollerball, he was illegally wiretapping producer Charles Roven, with whom he frequently clashed on set over the film's production.
9Rap TIL that in 1963-6 a 120ft supergun fired over 200 projectiles weighing as much 180kg each as far as 180km into space from the Caribbean island of Barbados, setting an altitude record that has still not been broken - and the abandoned supergun is still in place on the island.
Z8QXv TIL that the West Indie's top cricketer Kraigg Brathwaite was scrawny as a kid, and got bullied by his Combermere School (Barbados) bus mates. A girl, 4 years his senior, protected him. She beat up the bullies & took Kraigg on her lap. Her name: Robyn Fenty, a.k.a. Rihanna.
dgEE TIL the elite fighting unit of Ancient Thebes was the “Sacred Band of Thebes”, a force comprised of 150 Gay Male Couples who crushed the Spartans in multiple military engagements.