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TIL Slaughterhouse workers are more likely to be violent, and it is believed this is because they have become desensitized to suffering

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ldGr TIL By the end of the WW2 The Indian Army had become the largest volunteer army in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in August 1945.

8eGe4 TIL of the Erin-go-Bragh passage to Australia. Ever the witty folks, an Irish passenger nicknamed the ship the Erin go slow, as the trip took 196 days. The longest passage to Australia from the (former) UK.

pYdRp TIL At the start of World War 2 the tops of pillar post boxes were painted with an invisible gas detection paint that would turn yellow in the event of a gas attack.

nmAP TIL in India a serial rapist was lynched to death by 200 women in front of judge inside court premises.

Wd5X TIL George Miller, director of the Mad Max films, was a medical doctor who began taking film classes in his down time. Much of the physical violence in the movies was informed by what he learned treating car-crash victims.