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TIL Under the Soviet Union, the distribution of Beatles albums was forbidden by the government, so some medical students would burn Beatles songs onto old X-rays.

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LpEV TIL a sociopathic 10 year old girl killed two boys. One of the crime scenes was described by the inspector as “There was a terrible playfulness about it…and somehow the playfulness of it made it more, rather than less, terrifying”. She was convicted and then released at the age of 23.
0bN1 TIL infamous film director Uwe Boll once challenged critics to a boxing match. 4 critics showed up. He proceeded to punch the living shit out of every single one of them.
emkJ TIL that the first foreigner to become a samurai was an african slave.
jMGE TIL of Heinz Drossel, a German Lieutentant during WWII that refused to join the Nazi Party. He came upon a woman on a bridge who attempted to jump as soon as she saw his uniform, as she was Jewish. He stopped her and assisted her in escaping to safety. After the war, he married her.
epBNL TIL Current Gen. M.2 NVMe SSDs are about as fast as last gen DDR2 Ram