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TIL a UK judge ordered a criminal to be released as at a height of 7'2" he was too big for prisons.

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BrOKr TIL the sinner side of Mahatma Gandhi. I'm losing faith in humanity each day.
VDyB TIL that the Italian government constructed a dam in 1959 despite multiple warnings of the instability of the region. In 1963, a landslide into the reservoir behind the dam triggered a tsunami over 800 ft high that breached the dam and killed nearly 2000 people, leaving a 200 ft deep impact crater.
p14 TIL in Afghanistan there are girls who dress and live as boys (going to school, etc.) until marrying age, then get treated fully as girls.
PYl8L TIL Nazi Germany destroyed the city of Warsaw virtually completely following an uprising that resulted in the 500k citizens being taken captive. Germany had plans to turn the city into a manmade lake to erase it completely from history.
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