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TIL Stephen King's father left his family under the pretense of "going to buy a pack of cigarettes".

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VMWDG TIL of Roza Shanina, whose teenage brother was killed by Germans in WWII. Seeing how sad her mother was, she joined the Red Army as a 17-year old sniper and killed 59 Nazis as revenge.
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