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165OP TIL about the Nogun-Ri Massacre where 300 civilian men, women and children were killed by the US Army via machine guns, artillery and air raids/strafing. They were unarmed and merely seeking refuge under a bridge.
P14Ow TIL of Drapetomania, a falsely proposed mental illness based on the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental illness would wish to escape
WwLL TIL the best female sniper of all time was a 24 year old Russian WWII soldier named Lyudmila Pavlichenko. She left university in Ukraine during her senior year to start “hunting Nazis” after the Third Reich invaded the country.
W79vA TIL this painting was commissioned by the Utah State Court, but one judge hated it so much the state spent $25,000 to put it behind a curtain when court was in session.
5VLxp TIL that in the German-language version of 'Airplane' (1980), the Barbara Billingsley jive scene was dubbed in a Bavarian dialect that other German speakers have difficulty understanding. The joke is as effective in the dubbed version as in the English original.