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TIL of Ebstein’s anomaly, a type of heart disease that can make you drop dead at any moment, no matter what you’re doing.

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XwEX TIL Soviet Russia built a flying tank.
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4ka6g TIL that during the Cephalonia massacre in WWII, after executing most of the Italian officers that had surrendered to them, the Germans forced 20 Italian sailors to take the bodies out to sea in rafts. They then blew up the rafts with the sailors still on them.
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