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TIL - After the fall of Berlin in WW2, so many rapes occurred that over 100,00 births in the city were believed to be the result of rape.

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QJlXd TIL in 1946, a black WWII veteran was taking a bus home in uniform, and asked the driver to stop for a bathroom break. The driver called the police, and the local chief of police arrested the man, beat him, and gouged out his eyes with a nightstick. The officer was acquitted by an all-white jury.
5dZD TIL New moms in Finland get a ‘starter kit’: clothes, snowsuits, sheets, toys, picture books and a padded box which is the baby’s first crib. All FOR FREE.
04rA TIL Roald Dahl, author of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ had all of his teeth pulled out when he was 21, because he thought they were more trouble than they were worth.
LjXV TIL of the Pandoravirus: a giant virus where 93% of their genes resemble nothing known, cannot be traced to any known cellular lineage, and suggests a 4th domain of life.
wLLlP TIL males in Europe and Americas commit suicide three to five times more often than females