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TIL that Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor in many of the Nuremberg Trials, also wished to prosecute American pilots who had bombed North Vietnam, believing they were also guilty of war crimes.

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JYbkm TIL of a failed 1996 space rocket launch that flew directly into a village and China tried to cover up
6k8J TIL in 1775, about 70 years after the last Dodo’s death, the director of Oxford’s Natural History museum decided the museum’s stuffed Dodo was becoming too tattered and ordered it burned. A passing employee noticed and rescued a head and a limb. This is the last remainder of an actual dodo we have.
Bg1BL TIL about Christopher Duntsch aka “Dr. Death” a Texas neurosurgeon who performed 38 operations in two years resulting in 2 deaths and 31 severely injured patients
LQVod TIL that the 1963 hit song "I Will Follow Him" was recorded by fourteen-year-old Peggy March. She had just turned fifteen when it went to #1 on the Billboard chart. Peggy still holds the record for the youngest female artist with a #1 Billboard hit.
MEgV TIL Some animals, such as penguins and chimpanzees, will prostitute themselves for things like pebbles or meat, respectively