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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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aJE0 TIL the longest wrongful conviction served was 35 years served by James Bain for a murder and rape he did not commit.
1aQVd TIL that in 1985 the US’s Delta force and Seal Team Six were surrounded (guns drawn) by the Italian Carabinieri after the US forced an airliner to land at an Italian NATO base. This stemmed from the hijacking of an Italian cruise ship and the killing of an American by members of the PLO days earlier
nGb7 TIL That Hungarian psychologist László Polgár wrote a book on how to raise a genius. He showed his ideas to his teacher, they got married and raised their three children to be chess grandmasters, two of them are record breakers and one became the first female to beat the top-ranked male.
gM1kX TIL of the Johnston Turkey, a Turkey located in Rhode Island who has evaded capture for months, terrorized and disrupted locals, and even got votes in the local mayorial election.
PYJoG TIL Cancer patients who opt for alternative therapy die at twice the rate of those who stick with conventional cancer therapy.