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TIL There are bugs who decorate themselves with the corpses of their consumed prey.

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woXbW TIL The Nazi rewards program, "Strength Through Joy", gave workers a shot at prizes like theatre trips, picnics, and cheap travel! It began after Hitler abolished unions, upped the max workweek to 72 hours, and outlawed going on strike, wage bargaining, or leaving work without permission.
XEkEE TIL that Terry Pratchett was a Skyrim and Oblivion modder
8eVQ8 TiL that Bobby Darin's maternal grandfather was "Big Sam Curly" Cassotto, a made man and "soldier" in the Genovese Crime Family, as well as a close associate of crime boss Frank Costello. He passed away in late 1935 while in prison, less than a year before Darin was born.
xvok TIL that whenever German victories were announced on the radio in occupied Denmark, the Danish Resistance would cut into the broadcast and play “It Ain’t Necessarily So” from Porgy and Bess.
P1Ogw TIL that before the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, a B29 weather reconnaissance plane called Straight Flush flew over the city to determine if conditions were favourable. Its pilot, Claude Eatherly later expressed remorse, received psychiatric hospitalisation, and engaged in anti-nuclear activism.