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TIL Amish people end formal education at the 8th grade. This is mainly because they value apprenticeship and hands-on learning, and that more advanced learning can foster anti-Christian beliefs and counter their values.

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QJpdE TIL of the Guangxi Massacre in China, where local Communist Party offices sponsored mass cannibalism to promote political factions. Up to 150,000 people died, some bodies were retained as after-dinner snacks, and there was even a social hierarchy created of who was allowed to eat which body parts.
p8DbA TIL kangaroos are good swimmers. They swim to avoid predators, and can use their forepaws to drown pursuers.
7rlVr TIL Otto Skorzeny was an unrepentant Nazi, a senior SS officer, who remained involved in right-wing causes his whole life, later it’s emerged that he was also an agent and hitman for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service.
eZ4L TIL in ancient Athens they had a process called ostracism, where once a year the people would vote on the politician they thought was becoming too powerful and was in a position to establish a tyranny. The “winner” was then exiled from Athens for 10 years.
lDyr TIL of a man from Poland who was admitted to the hospital after a car accident with a BAC of 1.480%. Believing their equipment was faulty, doctors tested him 5 more time with the same result each time. The man died a few days later due to his injuries from the accident, rather than his BAC.