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TIL that Snooki is an indigenous girl who was adopted from Chile.

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9w8VG TIL about the US Army's APS contingency program. Seven gigantic stockpiles of supplies, weapons and vehicles have been stashed away by the US military on all continents, enabling their forces to quickly stage large-scale military operations anywhere on earth.
jNxKv TIL that Sylvester Stallone considers his 1992 movie 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' as “maybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we’ve never seen," and "a flatworm could write a better script."
x6amb TIL of the Normandy Massacres, a series of killings committed against Canadian soldiers by Hitler Youth SS troops. Around 1-in-7 of Canadian deaths during the Battle of Normandy were executions.
ep5YJ TIL of 20-year-old Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain, who was tortured to death in 2017 by six students at his university after he was accused of stealing from one of them. The students took turns pressing a steam iron against his skin, causing burns over 80% of his body.
kODLd TIL the last French soldier to die in WW1 was killed 15 minutes before the ceasefire. He was delivering a message to his unit that soup would be served for lunch.