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TIL that the Soviet Army raped over 2,000,000 German women after defeating Nazi Germany - an estimated 240,000 died in connection with the rapes. Antony Beevor describes it as the “greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history”

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Xpj6 TIL a woman who claimed to be a survivor of the 9/11 attacks and even became the president of World Trade Centers Survivors Support Group turned out to be lying and wasn’t even in the United States during the attacks.
6E4a7 TIL Once a year, fish swim to Mexico for an orgy so loud it can deafen dolphins and sea lions
wokNP TIL: There is no express written limitation in the Constitution barring a person with a criminal conviction from holding office as the President of the United States
X0ZgR TIL a Massachusetts supermarket offered free shuttle service to customers to bring them to and from the store after it had less than 10 shopping carts left. The goal was to prevent losing any more carts from customers who were bringing their groceries home in the carts and not returning them.
PYle TIL that there are more tigers kept as pets in Texas than there are in the wild in India.