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TIL the only Indian POW held in Colditz Castle during WWII, Birendra Nath Mazumdar, was shunned by his fellow inmates. To improve his odds of escaping, he staged a hunger strike to get transferred to an all-Indian camp. It worked & he escaped from the new camp & walked 900km to Switzerland & freedom

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Y7gAd TIL of UK conservative MP Stephen Milligan who died in 1994 of auto-erotic asphyxiation. Milligan’s body was found naked wearing only stockings and suspenders, with an orange in his mouth.
GYPGE TIL that there is a second Bethlehem of Galilee, a small town just a few miles west of Nazareth, where Mary and Joseph lived. An antiquities biblical archeologist proposes that this is the true birthplace of Jesus rather than Bethlehem of Judea, more than 70 miles away, south of Jerusalem.
N6Db TIL of a mushroom that can cause a woman to have an instant orgasm
VWEk TIL: Dr. Pepper was made to taste like the smell of a drug store
rNwMW TIL because of its slow rotation one "day" on mercury equals 59 earth days. It orbits the Sun in a 3:2 spin–orbit resonance, rotating on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions around the Sun meaning a day lasts twice as long as its year.