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TIL that the drug company Bayer bought Auschwitz prisoners to be used as research subjects for testing new drugs.

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Q8rd TIL in 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
1aAW TIL that Charles XII of Sweden and his cousin once got a bear so drunk it fell out from a window and died.
Y7a0Z TIL: Wyatt Earp served as an unpaid technical consultant for Hollywood Westerns
Vj9D TIL to obtain tears of the big-eyed lorises, skewers are inserted into the animals anuses and run through their bodies until they exit the mouth, the still-living animals are then roasted over a fire and the tears that stream from their eyes are collected and used in traditional Asian medicine.
D1bkj TIL that author Lee Child was inspired to name his character Jack Reacher after a shopping trip. An old lady asked for his help in reaching for a can of pears; Child's wife, when seeing this, commented that if his writing career didn't work out, he could 'always get a job as a reacher'.