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TIL that Ja Rule avoided a lawsuit by successfully arguing that nobody bought tickets to see him

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946G TIL that LSD cured a holocaust survivor from Auschwitz’s PTSD and allowed him to sleep for the first time in 30 years without nightmares
4XdRb TIL that the man that was not saluting to Hitler in the famous photograph was August Landmesser. After imprisonment, a failed attempt of fleeing to Denmark with his family, his Jewish wife dying in the Holocaust, he was drafted into a penal battalion where he was killed in action.
BgvNe TIL, White Horse Temple, the first Buddhist temple in China, was desecrated heavily during the Cultural Revolution. At the same time, when the King of Cambodia requested to visit the temple, the Chinese authorities quickly restored it including placing artefacts from other museums in the temple.
WkQY9 TIL that, like champagne, tequila is a designation of origin product and must be grown in the Tequila Valley to be called tequila.
7Mw7 TIL that PETA kills 89% of the animals it takes in