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TIL: That following the capture of 81 German soldiers as prisoners of war, Germans soldiers attempted/largely succeeded in massacring an entire village. Only 13 out of nearly 700 men survived. The women survived thanks to 1 sympathetic soldier who freed them.

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PYR0g TIL that a school in Massachusetts has been condemned for torture by the UN
KOyl6 TIL when two soldiers in the Canadian Airborne beat a Somalian teenager to death, and then their superiors attempted to cover it up, the Canadian government disbanded the entire Canadian Airborne
NXQGP TIL that actor Joel Polis, who played Fuchs in John Carpenter's The Thing, went on to play Gary from Gary's Olde Towne Tavern, the rival bar in the TV show Cheers.
vPYyr TIL ancient writers thought geese and ocean barnacles were the same creature
b9Oma TIL: During his sons kidnapping, Frank Sinatra Sr spoke with the kidnappers via payphone often. Worried that he wouldn't have enough change for the call he started to carry 10 dimes wherever he went. He continued to do this for the rest of his life, and was even buried with 10 dimes in his pocket.