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TIL That children from Roosevelt's family would crawl through the space between ceilings and floors in the White House, where no living being but rats and ferrets had been for years.

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ZxvD TIL After being shot, kicked, and spat upon, the bodies of Benito Mussolini and his mistress were hung upside down on meathooks from the roof of an Esso gas station. The bodies were then stoned by civilians from below. NSFW
jQBM TIL that around 4% of all the cheese made in a year ends up being stolen
XEEwP TIL death row inmates in Japan are held in solitary confinement and “told [when] they are to be hanged just hours before they are taken to the gallows.”Their families are notified only after their demise.
xVQY1 TIL that an infant king in 16th century Hungary was kept alive by being placed inside recently slain animal corpses, a primitive form of incubator.
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