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TIL: A Nazi officer who saved many Poles and Jews during WWII was sent to a Soviet labour camp after the war- despite petition- until he died from the torture

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jNGNX TIL Khajuraho: India’s temples of sex built-in 10th AD are a group of temples covered with erotic sculptures that involve masturbation, group sex, and bestiality & are of Tantric origin. Studies say that they represent the ultimate embodiment of Yogic Purusha & Prakati.
kOblB TIL that when yakuza boss Tadamasa Goto wanted to have a liver transplant performed in USA in 2001, he donated 100 thousand dollars to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The gangster jumped the queue and got the liver; that year, 186 people in the Los Angeles region died waiting for livers.
VMrAZ TIL Phlegm in medieval medicine actually referred to the fluid made by white blood cells and platelets, as each of the four humors were based on the different layers that would form when blood is separated
P6YE TIL the tiny island of Nauru became the world’s richest country per capita in the 60s by mining its phosphate reserves. The country blew it on spending & bad investments (e.g.“Leonardo the musical”). It’s now the ~135th richest country, with 40% diabetes rate and a wrecked environment due to mining.
w7eW TIL Emily the cow escaped from a slaughterhouse minutes before her turn at the abattoir, wandered for 40 days eluding capture, went on to live for 8 more years before getting a memorial on her grave