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TIL that non-violent attempts to escape Mexican prisons are not punished as ‘it’s human nature to want freedom’

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Je5Q TIL a New Zealand man memorized the French dictionary to compete in a French Scrabble tournament. He won the tournament despite not speaking any french.
JY80k TIL Warren Zevon's famous "Werewolves of London" was the product of Phil Everly jokingly telling Zevon to adapt the title of the film Werewolf of London into a song and dance craze. Zevon and others wrote the song in 15 minutes
1aeoV TIL that in 1992, Paul Lynch completed 124 consecutive push-ups over approximately 5 minutes using only his finger.
KmbB TIL that there is a PG rated horror movie about tomatoes that revolt against humans, and their only weakness is a song known as “Puberty Love”
KOrOQ TIL that people with German ethnicity were expelled from eastern Europe the years after WW2. Approximately 12 million people were forcefully transferred, with between 500,000 to 2 million dying in the process. This event have been called a democide, or even a genocide, by some historians.