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TIL In 2014, a Chinese couple reportedly sold their two children to fund their internet gaming addictions

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E1ywP TIL Hanno of Carthage, the first explorer who wrote about Gorillas describes them as hairy, savage humans. His crew managed to capture 3 females alive but killed them and took their pelts, after they were deemed too dangerous to handle
1mBP TIL that 46 years ago today, a NYPD Officer was shot in the face during a drug raid and the officers officers with him refused to make the call to the dispatcher indicating an officer was shot
4Q9N TIL Stalin’s hated his oldest son,Yakov, so much that when he tried and failed to commit suicide by gun Stalin joked “He can’t even shoot straight.” Yakov later died in a German concentration camp, possibly after disobeying a guard. Stalin felt this was an honorable death.
6E5LZ TIL according to The Guinness Book of World Records, the toughest tongue twister is 'The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick'.
v1eVB TIL of the murder of Henryk Siwiak, on September 11, 2001. Shot and killed in Brooklyn, his murder is the only one recorded in NYC that day apart from the 9/11 attacks, and his death remains unsolved.