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TIL a group of Mennonite men sprayed anaesthetic through bedroom windows at night, sedating entire families so they could rape the women.

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R174 TIL the science fiction films ‘Contact’, 'The Fifth Element’, 'Gattaca’, 'Men in Black’, and 'Starship Troopers’, were all released in the same year, 1997
9wYGQ TIL that any sufficiently large explosion will result in a mushroom cloud, not just nuclear explosions
5opr TIL The Japanese created a pot that can stir itself with the inertia from heated foods
V1B8 TIL Liza Minnelli only accepted the role of Lucille 2 on Arrested Development because she was asked in person by Ron Howard, who she had babysat when he was a child and she a teen
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