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TIL that Georgian troops deliberately torched Abkhazian Research Institute of History to remove any evidence that Abkhazians' lived in their historical homeland

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OgRY TIL a horde of Black Friday shoppers crushed a Walmart employee to death as they smashed through the front doors. Cops trying to perform CPR were also trampled on by the crowd hunting steep discounts.
D17be TIL Clyde Barrow (Bonnie and Clyde) once wrote a letter to Henry Ford, thanking him for the reliability and performance of his V-8 automobiles.
bv5Q TIL that Guy Debord, French Marxist literary theorist, published his first book with a sandpaper cover so that books placed next to it would be destroyed
R5Rk6 TIL - An Italian man from Milan, Xu Xiangshun (his legal Chinese name) ended up in China's countryside when he was around 3 and pretty much adopted the full Chinese peasant lifestyle. He doesn't know any Italian or have a clue about its culture.
rQXd TIL Industrially-Grown Tomatoes are grown not for flavor but for their resilience to being hauled across the country. They are picked very unripe and green. Trucks transporting them are pumped full of Ethylene gas to artificially ripen them.