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TIL Hitler's private train was named Amerika.

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WkM09 TIL Kirsty MacColl, vocalist and female singer in "Fairytale of New York", died saving her son from an oncoming powerboat owned by a multimillionaire while vacationing in Cozumel, Mexico. The boat's driver escaped jail time by paying a fine of $90USD.
rRNZM TIL in 1997 Vladimir Markov, a tiger poacher managed to shoot and wound a tiger and steal it's recent kill, but the tiger escaped. The tiger later found Markov's hunting cabin. He wasn't home, so the tiger tore the place up and waited. When Markov came home he was attacked and killed, but not eaten.
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