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TIL after the North Koreans tried to assassinate the South Korean president, some South Korean generals wanted to dump the assassins’ corpses on the negotiating table

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YpbpW TIL there are no regulations on what side the fuel tank door is on cars, it’s simply chosen by how the car is put together.
6dyX TIL That after the 2006 Amish shooting that left 5 schoolgirls dead the parents of the girls went to the shooter’s house and comforted his widow. A fund was then set up for the widow’s family by the Amish community.
d8Z8E TIL of Bishop Chrysostomos of Zakynthos. When ordered by the occupying Nazis to compile a list of Jews resident on the island, he handed over a piece of paper with a single name on it; his own.
QJ6JL TIL that 87 men died on the Potomac after two ships collided while searching for John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
XokX TIL that gay sex is legal in Vatican City