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TIL Harrison Ford flew to France to give Roman Polanski his Oscar

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JYM8v TIL that on the island of Wogeo, Papua New Guinea, menstruation is seen as powerful and cleansing. Even men are expected to do a form of menstruation, in which they slice their penises with a crab claw while standing in the ocean.
dmPZ TIL that no matter the evidence, if a jury feels a law is unjust, it is permitted to “nullify” the law rather than finding someone guilty
4XlyJ TIL that black essayist James Baldwin had an 1,884-page FBI file, one of the longest in Bureau history. Truman Capote, one of the most-suspected writers of the era, only had a 110-page file
x69D TIL Irma Grese aka “The Hyena of Auschwitz” was a female guard in Auschwitz who used human skin as a lampshade and before executed calmly said ‘Schnell’ which means 'Quick, get it over’ in German.
J1KE8 TIL that Queen Elizabeths mother, who died in 2002, lived so long that she was born in the Victorian era