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TIL That in 2017, the Turkish State destroyed a Cemetery of Kurdish Fighters, dug up the remains of 282 of them, and had them "reburied" in plastic boxes on top of each other under a pavement at a Jewish Cemetery in Istanbul in a section for the nameless, far away from their relatives.

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rR6v4 TIL that the United States' first department store was created in Utah, and lasted around 130 years before being sold to the Macy's Corporation
E1pep TIL that a torturer in Communist Poland, Julia Brystiger, was famous for "whipping male genitals" of her victims, some of whom later died because of this.
eG4L TIL that Yellowstone National Park’s geothermal hot springs are capable of dissolving a human body overnight
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