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TIL: US soldiers raped, burned and killed a 14yo Iraqi girl and killed 3 members of her family including 6yo sister

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e0Bvn TIL after watching Snow White together with C.S. Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien grew a massive hatred towards Walt Disney, calling him a "cheat" and his works as "vulgar" and "disgusting".
VLlD TIL, the pointy bullet used by modern militaries is called a spitzer, a shortening of the german word for “pointy bullet”.
8aLab TIL Hannelore Kohl, wife of the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (1982-1998), was gang-raped and thrown out a first-floor window by Soviet soldiers as a 12 year old in 1945. She committed suicide in 2001, after a long battle with mental problems most likely caused by these suppressed traumas.
8axX8 TIL Researchers at Yale cooked 4000-year old Babylonian stews from recipes written on ancient clay tablets, including a stew made from onion and leeks, beets, and broth of lamb
loaXA TIL Oregon was the only state admitted into the Union (year 1859) with an exclusion law written in its constitution, which forbade black people from living within its borders.