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TIL that British prisoners of war during WW2 were a huge morale drain on the German people. And often they’d get their captors arrested by filing fallacious complaints about their treatment in the camps.

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R7dpj TIL the first street fight caught on camera was in Halifax, England - 1901
wLYWo TIL that technically there is no city named Tokyo. Tokyo is a prefecture, something like a state, and not a city. Also, there is no city named Tokyo inside of Tokyo Prefecture.
0BKA TIL in 2004, a Wal-Mart was built on a section of Teotihuacan. Ancient artifacts were shipped off to dumps by workers who found them on the site.
XRDE TIL the unique strontium isotope composition of the bedrock where you grew up is recorded in your tooth enamel. This allows archaeologists to analyze a person’s remains and determine where in the world they lived as a child.
KOLv9 TIL that the Allman Brothers Band's road manager murdered a club owner over $500, but was later declared not guilty by reason of insanity arguing that working for the hard-partying Allmans literally drove him crazy.