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TIL that after Winter War out of 5,572 soviet prisoners of war returned from Finland 4,354 were sentenced to imprisonment in labor camps and 232 executed

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O90g TIL King Tut was mummified with an erection.
N75lP TIL that Shiro Ishii, a Japanese general who oversaw Unit 731 and thousands of horrific war crimes during WWII, was given immunity in exchange for human experimentation data. He also may have gone on to do bio-weapons research at Fort Detrick located in Frederick, Maryland.
8Ylb TIL the main component of education in Turkmenistan has been almost completely replaced by memorization of the “Ruhnama”, the president’s personal autobiography. An engineer reported that all his son learns is passages. “He has begun telling me off because he has memorised more of the book than me.”
nelZo TIL why coins have ridges on the sides... Criminals in the 1700s saw they could make a good profit by filing shavings from the sides of gold and silver coins. Today’s coins contain no precious metals but, you’ll still find those ridges to make them distinguishable for visually impaired people.
8L0G TIL Street artist Banksy set up a stall in New York to sell authentic art without telling anyone. Only at $60 each, the pieces are estimated to be worth $250,000. Only 3 people bought them.