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TIL there is an Australian artist called Pricasso who makes a living painting portraits with his penis

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mxaYP TIL notorious criminal John Dillinger served a stint as a sailor aboard the battleship USS Utah, which long after he left the service, was destroyed during the attack on Pearl Harbor. She still rests in the Harbor today as a lesser known memorial compared to the USS Arizona.
49mR TIL That between 1965 and 1972, the CIA oversaw a torture program that killed between 26,000 and 41,000 people, which used tactics such as gang rape, electrocution, and even rape using a live eel. Most prisoners did not survive.
6vEl TIL law enforcement and the entire concept of a ‘police force’ is a very new historical concept. Outside of private guards and community vigilantism, policing did not even exist until 1707 in Great Britain - and it was 1829 before police were established in London.
Eg0Gp TIL that when told of Truman Capote's death, his long time nemesis Gore Vidal remarked that it was "a wise career move."
oXb7 TIL Belgrade has been razed to the ground 44 times.