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Today I learned that a Czech cult member was caught torturing and cannibalizing her children when a neighbor's baby monitor accidentally picked up a video signal showing a boy chained up in a cellar

Read more telegraph.co.uk

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95a7 TIL The Judge Who Sentenced Saddam Was Executed by ISIS
LQgOp TIL about the Mongolian "Dzud" of 2009-2010 that killed 22% of their livestock and doubled the price of meat.
XEdYE TIL in 2008, a woman who had been missing for 24 years was discovered to be locked up against her will in her father's basement for all those years. In a prison interview, the father said: "Just look into the cellars of other people, you might find other families and other girls down there."
v1Xr TIL Biocentrism is the theory that life creates the universe: space and time are merely tools of the human (and animal) mind.
b6ZQN TIL that in 2017, several Maryland college students consumed so much alcohol at a house party, that the air in the house registered a reading of 0.01 on a breathalyzer.