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TIL there is an extinct species of bandicoot whose scientific name is 'Crash Bandicoot'

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EkV0 TIL that the Soviet Army raped over 2,000,000 German women after defeating Nazi Germany - an estimated 240,000 died in connection with the rapes. Antony Beevor describes it as the “greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history”
4kVmN TIL Rust doesn't cause tetanus and is relatively harmless in small quantities
neDxY TIL Shouting FIRE! in a crowded theater isn’t illegal. In U.S. v. Schenck, SCOTUS decided a pamphlet opposing the draft in WWI posed a "clear and present danger" to a nation at war. But it was overturned 40 years later.
1anP TIL Coconut juice – or water inside – not only is sterile, but has the same electrolytic balance as human blood, which enabled medics in the Pacific Theater in World War II to use it as an emergency substitute for plasma.
dK88 TIL Danish queen Margrethe II drew illustrations for the “Lord of the Rings”, J.R.R. Tolkien was pleased enough s.t. she became an “official Tolkien artist” responsible for the Danish edition of 1977