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TIL a group of escaped German POWs returned to Camp Ozada in Alberta, Canada voluntarily after encountering a grizzly bear

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p8QOA TIL Thalaikoothal is the traditional practice of involuntary euthanasia, by their own family members, observed in some parts of southern districts of Tamil Nadu state of India.
94Qr TIL NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used to run a female beauty pageant, the winner of which was crowned ‘Miss Guided Missile’
KOJD9 TIL that during a plague outbreak in Romania in 1813, plague sufferers were buried alive. One undertaker squad reported "we collected 15 dead today, but only buried 14, because one of them ran away."
X0nd6 TIL: Gatorade Shower was invented in 1984 by Jim Burt of the NY Giants.
jNgv TIL Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, a former Alcatraz inmate, visited San Francisco and had a touristy photo taken as an Alcatraz prisoner, AS A FUGITIVE.