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TIL of an Auschwitz survivor who is searching for his twin on Facebook

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j7RQ TIL that in 2013 a Chinese woman went on trial for murder after she squeezed a shopkeepers testicles so hard that he died.
GYxPN TIL Ducklings can engage in cannibalistic behaviours due to boredom, overcrowding, lack of ventilation, and poor nutrition.
x6r1g TIL A phenomenon called "change blindness": An experiment found that nearly half of people failed to notice when the person they were talking to was replaced with someone else after a brief visual distraction.
yVl4a TIL the movie Cleopatra cost $350 million adjusted for inflation to make, 3 times higher than Ben Hur. Due to its cost it was considered a box office bomb despite being highest grossing film of 1963.
xVwe1 TIL that the 1877 novel Black Beauty, now considered a children's classic, was written for adults by author Anna Sewell to highlight the problem of animal abuse and was subtitled "The Autobiography of a Horse." Ironically, Sewell was an invalid at the time and could not ride herself.