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TIL PeTA boycotted Liam Neeson’s movie because it depicted gray wolves in a negative light

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wGG8 TIL that in World War II, American soldier John R. Fox died when he deliberately called an artillery strike on himself. Realizing that German troops were overrunning his party’s position, the strike delayed the enemy long enough for other American units to organize a counter attack.
R0ya TIL the female orgasm is similar to an epileptic seizure.
XEn8E TIL Elizabeth Eckford of the little rock 9 was alone on the day of that iconic photo because her family had no telephone!
wV4o TIL there is a Chinese theme park that simulates an invasion by Japan
OJX6 TIL in 2012, a lone hacker mapped the entire Internet using a botnet running on 420,000 routers and released 9TB of data.