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TIL that some Syrian Rebels are fighting with STG-44 rifles manufactured in Nazi Germany.

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N7Pee TIL that the average value of a person's data is about 30 cents.
4Xgl5 TIL: A woman disappeared in 1993. Her 3-year-old son claimed that his father (her husband) had murdered her, but he wasn't believed. 20 years later, when renovating the family home, he dug up his mother's remains in the backyard.
epra4 TIL that tower PC cases became popular because of safety concerns. Apple worried that a new monitor in 1991 that weighs 80 pounds would crush computers under its weight. The Mac Quadra 700 and 900 announced at the same time thus have tower cases, to prevent users from putting the monitor on them.
roBx TIL Marvel pays Stan Lee $1 million per year for life
78LkX TIL that in WW2, "unrestricted submarine warfare" - the sinking of merchant ships by submarines without warning - was ordered in response to allied aircraft illegally bombing a Nazi submarine under Red Cross banner openly attempting to rescue survivors of the RMS Laconia.