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TIL German soldiers can disobey orders if they consider them to be inhumane

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m9Kv TIL of Unit 684 an expendable South Korean black-ops team of 31 convicted criminals whose mission was to kill North Korea’s premier Kim Il-sung
QnEp TIL a man named Peter Wade derailed a train in 1982 to see what would happen, crushing the engineer who used his body to protect a teenager. Wade later went to WallStreet and made millions trading stock and then became a hollywood filmmaker.
dmxQ TIL that it would have cost NASA more money to fake the moon landing than actually doing it
VNDm TIL the avant-garde band The Residents recorded an album of 40 one-minute songs, then purchased 40 one-minute advertising slots on San Francisco’s most popular Top-40 radio station and had the station play each track over the course of three days
5YjKP TIL that while productions of the ballet Swan Lake mostly use the original coreography, almost every version staged contains a different ending, ranging from very romantic to darkly tragic