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wodb8 TIL that the creator of Kwanzaa kidnapped and tortured 2 black women by whipping them with an electrical cord, placing a hot soldering iron in their mouths, and putting one of their toes in a vise.
8agP8 TIL Zardoz is a film about flying stone heads, barbarians, eternal life, a vortex, renegades, Beethoven’s 7th & Sean Connery as “Zed” learning to read & saving humanity in a red speedo, knee-high leather boots & pony tail
P1a0w TIL the vulture population of India has fallen from 40 million to only 19,000 in just 30 years. This has been attributed to livestock being administered a drug poisonous to the bird, and has resulted in livestock formerly eaten by vultures now left to rot in fields, contaminating the water supply.
LOZv TIL that 80% of schizophrenics smoke as opposed to 20% of the general population
NXJe TIL in 1939, the Nazis had named their annual rally the “Rally of Peace”, to reiterate to the German people & the world their desire for peace. But it was cancelled on short notice. Why? One day before the scheduled “Rally of Peace”, Germany attacked Poland and ignited WWII