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TIL there was a fake French reality show in the style of the Milgram experiment, which made real and unwitting contestants shock someone on TV. 80% of them kept shocking the person (who was just an actor), even after he cried out for them to stop. 60% shocked him till he appeared to die.

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MNP0 TIL The Ovitz family were a family of Dwarfs who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp. They were the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded and were the largest family to enter Auschwitz and to survive intact.
W4lA TIL you can be prosecuted for deleting your browser history– as a felony, with a possible 20-year sentence. Even if you were unaware you were the subject of an investigation.
jooX TIL: Victor Licata Killed his family of 5 with an axe. His crime was blamed on Marijuana and was a driving force behind its prohibition and the inspiration for the movie Reefer Madness.
Wk58d TIL of Ghulam Dastagir, a Stationmaster who refused to leave his post during the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, & prevented any trains from stopping at the station, saving thousands of lives even as his colleagues were dead and he himself spent 2 decades in and out of hospital due to long exposure to the Gas
kJorm TIL that after Sam Cooke sang "A Change is Gonna Come" on The Tonight Show (Feb 7, 1964), the network lost the only recording of the performance. Cooke elected never to perform it again in his lifetime (he was murdered in Dec of '64), due to the song's complexity and ominous nature.