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TIL of Roza Shanina, a female Soviet sniper who fought in World War 2 and got 54 confirmed hits. Allied newspapers called her, “the unseen terror of East Prussia.”

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Wnp4 TIL a man with severe OCD and a phobia of germs attempted to commit suicide at the age of 19 via a gunshot wound to the head. Instead of killing him, the bullet eliminated his mental illness without any other brain damage.
xVv5 TIL that a psychologist attempted to raise a chimpanzee named Lucy as a human being. One day, he walked into her room and was shocked to find her masturbating to a copy of Playgirl.
wL7R1 TIL that even though they existed for about 165 million years, only about 700 species of dinosaur have been discovered to date.
eGLg TIL that the FBI started compiling a file on Sacha Baron Cohen while he was filming ‘Borat’ after receiving numerous complaints about a strange man travelling around the country in an ice cream truck.
GAQOQ TIL in the Battle of Schöngrabern, during the Napoleonic Wars, the French captured a bridge over the Danube at Vienna by falsely claiming that an armistice had been signed, and then rushing the bridge while the guards were distracted.