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TIL that Senator Joe McCarthy defended top SS troopers after WW2 in what was known as the Malmedy Massacre Trials.

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kOgXg TIL the phrase survival of the fittest is popularly wrongly attributed to Charles Darwin. It was coined by a philosopher called Herbert Spencer seven years before Darwin's publication of his theory of natural history, The Origin of the Species.
OoKM6 TIL a producer on Family Ties felt Michael J. Fox was too short for the role and tried to have him replaced saying “this isn’t the face you'll see on a lunch-box." Fox later gave him a custom-made lunch-box with the inscription "this is for you to put your crow in. Love and Kisses, Michael J. Fox.”
n9ro TIL that there is a restaurant in Cardiff Prison which is open to the public, where the food is cooked and served by prison inmates who are training for a career in catering
LQyGd TIL bears don't actually hibernate. Most of a bear’s bodily functions slow during its denning cycle in the winter, but true hibernation requires a significant drop in body temperature. A bear’s only dips by a few degrees. Also, the idea that they sleep all winter long is totally wrong.
oBNyW TIL of "Project Prevention", a program which pays drug addicts $300 to sterilize themselves. It was begun by a woman who adopted 8 children from drug-addicted mothers.