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TIL: The first death in WWII was Franciszek Honiok, a German of Polish descent. The Gestapo murdered him and left his body at a radio station that the Gestapo, dressed in Polish uniforms, attacked. The body helped "prove" Polish aggression to justify the Nazi's invasion of Poland the next day.

a8WwM TIL that in the original Polynesian myth, Māui dies after transforming into a worm and entering the vagina of the goddess Hine-nui-te-pō, who crushes him with the obsidian teeth in her vagina.
4X0N TIL that Marineland in Canada kept a killer whale in a tiny indoor tank for 5 years without sunlight
d8v0B TIL on 1816, after the French frigate ran aground the coast of Mauritania, 150 passengers and sailors went on a raft. They were found 15 days later, only 15 survived, the rest dying from drowning, hunger and violence from other survivors. Most had to eat human flesh to survive
9wAlm TIL about Hitomi Soga-Jenkins, a Japanese woman who was abducted to North Korea with her mother in 1978. Her mother disappeared and was never seen again. She was given a Korean name and married an American defector. They had two daughters. The family returned to Japan in 2004 where they live today.
LQRyV TIL of French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffered a stroke at 43 and became paralyzed. He suffered from locked-in syndrome, where his mind was intact but he could only move one eyelid. Bauby blinked out a 130-page novel that was a bestseller, passing away two days after it was published