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TIL Billionaire Peter Thiel paid $10 million to finance lawsuits against the media company Gawker, including the 2016 Hulk Hogan case that brought down the media company, as retaliation for an article outing him as gay in 2007.

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5YyAB TIL that between 1967 and 1989 East Germany sent a massive amount of arms to ANYONE at war with Israel - to the tune of three quarters of a million Klashnikovs, 120 MiG fighters, 180,000 anti-personell mines, 235,000 grenades; 25,000 RPG launchers; and 25 million cartridges of varying sizes.
kJj94 TIL that Louis Joseph Xavier, a French prince, died after developing an injury from a fall that turned fatal. Louis said that he developed his injury after being pushed by a playmate, but he refused to say who pushed him so they would not be punished. He was only 9 years old.
BrVZy TIL that it took E. B. White 17 takes to read the death scene of Charlotte, as he recorded the audio version of his book Charlotte's Web. He is said to have walked outside, come back in, and start crying again when he got to that moment, "a grown man crying over the death of an imaginary insect."
KOgAJ TIL about the Landkreuzer, a giant Nazi tank that was never built. It would have weighed 1100 tons and been armed with naval artillery.
6E1m7 TIL that on 17th May 1972, 10,000 London school kids went on strike to march against caning, detention, uniforms and ‘headmaster dictatorships’. Abandoning lessons to march on County Hall, the government thought it so serious MI5 and the Special Branch were involved to spy on 'school activists.