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TIL about the Nazi DirleWanger Brigade in World War 2 which played 'bayonet catch' with live babies among many other systematic atrocities

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adLJ TIL Homeland Security convinced a man to fly to Puerto Rico to try and dig up $1M worth of cocaine that he’d heard was buried there. After he was unsuccessful (twice) they just dug it up themselves and arrested him when they tried to give it to him.
6Ej4w TIL that every baseball used in MLB is conditioned with a specific “baseball rubbing mud”, which has been provided by one family for 3 generations.
5mLR TIL that the term “goody two shoes” comes from a children’s story about an orphan girl who was so poor she could only afford one shoe
00J5 TIL that Tom Cruise was originally slated to play Tony Stark/Iron Man but got dropped because he demanded that his face was visible at all times.
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