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TIL about Freddie and Truus Oversteegen, THE TEENAGE GIRLS WHO SEDUCED AND KILLED NAZIS. They looked so young that no one suspected them as spies working against the Nazis. They would distract the Nazis by pretending to seduce them, and later would lure them off and do the killing themselves.

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yKGX TIL 1930 life expectancy was 60 and Social Security Retirement age was 65. Today, it is 78 and 65 respectively.
P17KJ TIL that Pink Floyd’s The Wall is designed as an endless loop. The final track, “Outside the Wall,” ends with “Isn’t this where...”, and the album starts with “... we came in?” continuing the last song’s melody, highlighting the cyclical theme of Water’s concept.
YpGJA TIL Iowa man Jerald Reiter brought his pet zebra & parrot into the Dog House bar in Dubuque, but the bartender told the trio to leave. Although his truck wasn't in motion when police found Reiter sitting in his truck with the zebra & parrot, he was charged with an OWI. A friend drove the pets home.
Wk058 TIL that "Live Aid", the benefit concert held for the Ethiopian famine in 1985, (while well intended) actually gave ~£150 million to the Ethiopian Dictatorship. They used the money to mostly buy weapons from the Soviet Union and further fueled their civil war.
7LXX TIL of Brryan Jackson. He was purposely injected with HIV-tainted blood when he was 11 months old, by his own father. He developed AIDS by the age of 5 and death seemed certain. Today, he is over 20 years old and the virus has been undetectable in his blood for over five years.