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TIL that Croatian fascists created a type of knife literally called a “Serb cutter” in order to faster kill prisoners in concentration camps during WWII with concentration guards holding contests to see who could kill the most in one day (the record was 1,360)

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WkVnL TIL the word mile originates from the measurement of one thousand paces of a Roman soldier (mille passus)
wor5W TIL that in 2011 a man foreclosed on Bank of America. After BofA mistakenly tried to foreclose on his house despite him not having a mortgage, they owed him fees and damages. When they refused to pay, police escorted the homeowner to the local BofA branch and began seizing computers, desks, and cash
Zp7Ba TIL that in 2004, actor Carmine Caridi, star of “The Godfather”, was expelled from the Academy for making VCR copies of promotional screeners and sharing them with friends and family.
loep5 TIL that Latvian folklorist Anna Bērzkalne wrote her 1942 doctoral thesis in English instead of German as a form of non-violent resistance to the Nazi occupation of Latvia during World War II.
yl7e TIL in 2013 a father in Tennessee was arrested for picking up his children from school on foot. The school had a policy that children can only be picked up by parents driving cars or kids can board a school bus.