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TIL Brazil’s humanitarian crisis exposed suffering of Yanomami people under Bolsonaro government

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VBEm4 TIL in 1905, a murderer was beheaded. After the guillotine fell, the severed head made eye contact with a doctor who called his name.
QJ7Gd TIL during the US Civil War, Union Lt. Custer (of later Little Big Horn fame) found a West Point classmate Capt. Lea who was fighting for the Confederates and was captured. While recuperating, Lea met and married his nurse. Custer attended the wedding in full blue Union uniform, with Lea in gray.
p8AEN TIL that the 1912 presidential election pitted against each other a former President, Teddy Roosevelt; the incumbent President, William Howard Taft; & a future President, Woodrow Wilson.
Oojl1 TIL A West Virginia prison charges prisoners 3-5c per minute to read books on tablets despite prisoners making 4-58c per hour.
w5d8 TIL in Svalbard, anyone venturing outside the main settlement is required to carry a rifle with them, in case they are attacked by Polar Bears