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TIL Roman Emperor Caligula once ordered his guards to throw an entire section of the audience into an arena during the intermission to be eaten by the wild beasts because there were no prisoners to be used and he was bored.

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5NWB TIL Africans in Nazi Germany had a better chance of survivng than germans, since they were excluded from the military due to their non-Aryan status, but also were not segregated/incarcerated.
Bg60D TIL Tu Youyou won Nobel Prize in Medicine by discovering a cure for Malaria in ancient Chinese Daoist Medical texts
7x5b TIL: if officials awarded Lance Armstrong’s 2005 Tour De France title to the next fastest cyclist who has never been caught doping, they’d have to give it to the 23rd place finisher.
E1QOx TIL that during World War One conditions on the Eastern Front got so bad that wolves would start attacking groups of soldiers leading to a temporary truce between Germans and Russians so they could deal with the wolves attacking them.
oBBoo TIL Juan Carlos I (former King of Spain) once told Hugo Chavez to shut up (¿¡Por qué no te callas!?) when the Venezuelan leader called a former Spanish prime minister a "fascist" and "less human than snakes."