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TIL about the Bitch Wars: gulag prisoners who’d helped fight the Nazis in WW2 vs those who’d refused

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pY47O TIL in 2018 a Missouri deer hunter convicted of poaching hundreds of deer was forced to watch the animated film “Bambi” once a month for the duration of his one year prison sentence
b9wEj TIL that the skin of tilapia fish is used to treat serious burns in Brazil. Human trials show fish skin grafts are quicker and more painless than other methods
pYyVA TIL of drummer Cozy Powell's fatal car crash. He was traveling 104mph in the rain while drunk and talking on his phone with a woman who was cheating on her husband with him. He also had no seatbelt on, a leaking tire, and was still recovering from a recent motorcycle accident.
6EEAX TIL that the rapper Big Shaq is a character played by comedian Michael Dapaah
PYVOO TIL Hundreds of skeletons are scattered around a site high in the Himalayas, Roopkund lake, in India