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TIL Iran punishes acid-attackers by blinding them with acid.

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X1xX TIL the Kennedy Administration rejected a plan that called for U.S. personnel to disguise themselves as agents of the Cuban government and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
NabP TIL: In Germany (and other parts of Europe) there are brass plaques set in the sidewalks in front of the former homes of people who fell victim to German Nazism.
rroW TIL there is a farm in the middle of Kansas to which 600 million IP addresses are registered due to a glitch in the IP mapping software which maps them close to the geographical centre of the USA.
Y767d TIL that, when writing Dracula, Bram Stoker was greatly influenced by his father’s interest in theatre and his mother’s gruesome stories about her childhood during the cholera epidemic in 1832.
R5rY8 TIL there's a Woodhenge 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge