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TIL That Amon Goeth was charged by the Nazis for not providing enough food to the prisoners in his camp, and for violating rules regarding the treatment of prisoners

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j5wj TIL there’s a town called Boring in Oregon, and it’s twinned with a Scottish town called Dull.
Nr1J TIL there is an underground network of Americans who use the internet to abandon adopted children (most adopted from overseas) and this practice is called “adoption distruption” and “private re-homing.”
Z8Zoa TIL that in Ohio, repeat DUI offenders have ‘Scarlet letter’ license plates!
g8KD TIL that some dogs that fail seeing-eye school go to work as bomb-sniffers for the ATF
XEQVE TIL there is a fungus in Thailand that spreads into ants and controls their central nervous system making them perform actions to help its spread. It causes ants to climb trees and then fall into the moist soil where the fungus thrives. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/5/110511-zombies-