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TIL In the late 19th Century a plain, thin, red or black ribbon choker had ties to prostitution, as seen in Manet’s painting Olympia

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oBEER TIL that Silent Hill was based off a real town, Centralia, which still has a toxic coal mine burning underneath them 60 years later.
groj7 TIL That Roland Freisler, the German judge who presided over the trials of many of the July 20 plotters, died in the very courtroom the trials were conducted during an Allied bombing raid just a few months before the end of WWII.
xbb7 TIL a WWI ace landed his biplane atop an enemy observation balloon, cut his engines, and slid off into an acrobatic maneuver leaving the balloon to erupt into flames behind him
8vnL TIL a woman named Irena Sendler, who worked in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII, saved 2,500 Jewish children’s lives by smuggling them out, she was eventually caught and tortured. In 2007 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Price. She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show on global warming.
Prye TIL Canada is the most-sued country by corporations in the developed world, with 63% of cases arising from the implementation of environmental protection or resource management. Free trade tribunals often force the country to overturn the offending legislation.