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TIL Joseph Stalin was only 5’5 and it made me laugh. One of the few cases I am perfectly fine with making fun of someone for their height

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OG7oX TIL in 2014 a woman on an Icelandic bus tour left the group to go change clothes. When she returned she helped look for a missing woman. Eventually the searching woman realized it was her they were looking for. She wasn’t recognized in her new outfit, leading to the search.
VBKWZ TIL the remains of 1,150 unidentified victims of the 9/11 terror attacks are kept inside the September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center in New York City
D147Y TIL about Robert Antley, a bike shop owner who was waiting for burglars in his store. When they broke in, he was waiting with a gun where he made the men strip naked and brutally beat them for hours.
0wPo1 TIL that in 1945 Myanmar, 900 Imperial Japanese soldiers crossed through 10 miles of mangrove swamps that contained saltwater crocodiles in an attempted retreat from the Royal Navy. Less than 500 Japanese soldiers are known to have reached the end of those swamps.
VBXDk TIL the 1988 Camelford Water Disaster was the UK's worst mass poisoning event. Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate was accidentally added to the water supply, leading thousands to become sick. Inquests on people who died many years later found very high levels of aluminium in the brain.