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TIL on the 'Hateful Eight' set, Kurt Russel smashed a 145 year old Martin guitar worth $40,000 instead of one of the half dozen replicas he was supposed to.

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9wGm TIL half of American whites had blue eyes 100 years ago. Now, due to genetic mixing, there are via http://bit.ly/Skkcuz
beVN TIL baseball player Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash on New Year’s Eve 1972 while trying to deliver food and relief supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. He had exactly 3,000 hits in his professional career.
awgL TIL The majority of child abuse victims are not traumatized by their experience and in fact go along with it only to later feel guilty for not feeling the way society tells them they should
R5x98 TIL, in 1976 alone, the Indian government sterilized 6.2 million men
yYd8 TIL there was a Jewish boxer named Salamo Arouch imprisoned at Auschwitz. He was forced to fight fellow prisoners. The losers were sent to the gas chambers or shot. He survived more than 2 years and 200 fights, eventually being released when the camp was liberated.