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TIL When the allies liberated Nazi concentration camps gays were forced to carry out their prison sentences

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allA TIL that nearly all of the Presidentially pardoned turkeys are now dead due to the fact that the turkeys used for Thanksgiving are bred for the table and not for the ability to live long and healthy lives.
awLXL TIL about mass suicides; occurring as early as 206 BC in Astapa to as late as 1946 in Bali, Indonesia. These mass suicides, which can reach a toll of thousands, are a form of political protest of defeated groups against their aggressors and are regarded as an honorable act of heroism.
OGPr6 TIL bones make up around 85-90% of adult bearded vultures' (Gypaetus barbatus) diet. Bones are swallowed whole or bitten through, up to the size of a lamb's femur,
E1W4X TIL that there is a spacecraft cemetery in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
Z8XVR TIL In 1745 The Earl of Kilmarnock a Jacobite rebel was beheaded on Tower Hill. John Thrift the executioner was visibly upset and burst into tears when the Earl of arrived. This gave rise to the bizarre scene of the man who was about to die comforting his executioner.