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TIL 9th November is known as the ‘day of fate’ in German history- on the same day, Robert Blum was executed in 1848, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated in 1918, Hitler’s Munich Putsch occurred in 1923, Kristallnacht occurred in 1938, and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.

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M7OLK TIL St. James Davis, a former NASCAR driver, survived an attack by two escaped chimpanzees after having his nose, foot, testicles, and most of his fingers chewed off
NXgg8 TIL of the Eleusinian Mysteries- secret rituals of ancient Greece that spanned over two millennia. They involved a special drink (kykeon), visions, and conjuring of an afterlife. Discovered in Eleusinian temples were fragments of ergot (a fungus containing psychedelic alkaloids, pre-cursors to LSD).
QOvE TIL that the Amish community attacked during the West Nickel Mines School massacre was quick to forgive. They consoled the shooter’s father and widow, as well as set a charitable fund for his children.
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