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TIL What “would” means.

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o9wA TIL that a Soviet general, Vasili Blokhin, personally executed over 7,000 Polish prisoners in one month. He used a German pocket pistol for plausible deniability.
9xvQ TIL that 14yo Davontae Sanford was coerced into confessing to a quadruple homicide by police in Detroit in 2007. The actual killer later confessed, but Davontae remains in prison serving a 37 to 90 year sentence.
6EvoY TIL That Stephen Hillenburg creator of Spongebob, based the "French Narrator" from the show on Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who was a French scientist, naval officer, explorer and conservationist. Jacques was one of Hillenburg's idols, and his son Jean made a guest appearance on the Spongebob movie.
E1Myp TIL Stalin wasn’t Russian (and Hitler wasn’t German)
4XrKR TIL contrary to the popular myth that if a horse's legs were raised on a statue, the rider died in battle, there is no correlation between good position and manner of mortality