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TIL 55-60% of people in Pakistan marry their first cousin
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TIL that the producer of a TV movie on Hitler was fired for suggesting parallels between the climate surrounding Nazism and the War on terror.
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TIL that Lumiere, the candle from Beauty and the Beast, was voiced by Jerry Orbach, best known as Detective Lennie Briscoe from Law and Order. Orbach also had an IQ of 163 and skipped multiple grades as a student.
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TIL that Vasily Blokhin, a Soviet Russian Major-General, personally executed at least one Polish soldier every three minutes, totalling 7,000 by the 28th day
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TIL That the experimental T-13 grenade of World War II was designed with a size, weight and shape similar to a baseball, thus making it easy for young American men to properly throw the grenade with both accuracy and distance.
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TIL that back in 1990s, a chinese gynecologist discovered AIDS and its nature to spread by blood. She tried to warn and save thousands of uneducated farmers, but got hunted down by the Chinese government because they were profiting from the incident, forcing her exile.