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TIL Prince’s birth name was… Prince

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PBoG TIL of Yang Kyoungjon, a Korean soldier who fought in the Imperial Japanese Army, captured and forced into the Soviet Red Army, and later recaptured and forced into the German Wehrmacht during World War II, eventually being captured and freed by paratroopers of the US army in 1944.
0dmRv TIL that "Sky burial" is a practice where bodies are left on mountainsides for scavenger birds or natural decomposition, considered practical in high-altitude areas where the ground is too hard to dig.
6kxX TIL Johnny Cash was attacked and almost killed by an Ostrich in 1981.
69bxW TIL surgery/anaesthesia increases your risk of dementia
nej6G TIL Colombia has a hippo problem because drug lord Pablo Escobar's 4 pet hippos escaped after his death