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TIL that Ashton Kutcher and Scarlett Johansson both have twins.

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j6r9N TIL that in 1210, King John of England imprisoned a noble named Maud de Braose with her son William in a dungeon beneath Corfe Castle, and left there to starve to death. When their bodies were retrieved 11 days later, it was found that Maud had eaten parts of her son’s body before she died.
6nmY TIL a man in Thailand got 30 years in prison for ‘liking’ a photoshopped picture of the King of Thailand on Facebook
W7wA8 TIL about Parícutin, a volcano in Mexico that suddenly burst out of a farmer’s field in 1943, growing to a height of 200 metres in just 4 months.
4XZpb TIL that Nazis ran brothels within concentration camps to motivate prisoners to work more. Over 35k women were forced into forced sex labour.
kJleg TIL: In 1968, over 6000 sheep were killed in Utah and popular theories pointed to the Army. It was revealed 30 years later that it was indeed the result of nerve agent testing. Families nearby developed nervous system illnesses, but the Army accepted no responsibility.