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TIL That Sheb Wooley is not only credited with providing the Wilhem Scream, but that he also sang the popular song "The Purple People Eater"

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j6jgv TiL that bog bodies (natural mummies) have formed inadvertently as recently as 1945
OoDe7 TIL that based on geological definitions of a continent, the Earth actually has a lost eighth continent, known as Zealandia. Most of this continent is submerged beneath the sea, while a tiny sliver, including New Zealand, is above the water.
PVDn TIL that during WWII, when Japan occupied China, they built concentration camps that were filled with American, British and other European civilians living in China.
b6Pvj TIL After his execution, the skin of slave-rebellion leader Nat Turner was turned into souvenir purses
wBy8 TIL A customer was gifted overgenerous contract terms due to a misplaced comma in a contract with aerospace giant Lockheed Martin. The erroneous comma radically altered the inflation-adjustment formula resulting in $70 million loss to Lockheed Martin.