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TIL of two SEALS killing a Green Beret in a illicit cash cover up.

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E1eKx TIL that brown recluse spiders are pretty badly misunderstood and are nowhere near as dangerous and terrifying as everyone thinks they are.
0dd6p TIL the phrase “abracadabra” originates from the book Liber Medicinalis by Quintus Sammonicus
8emR4 TIL in 2011 Harper Collins published new editions of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark with new art. After mass controversy from fans, the original Stephen Gammell illustrations were used in subsequent printings.
R59X1 TIL that political opponents used to insult each other with the label "Pharaoh" before Hitler came around.
6EYLJ TIL that during WWII, French-Moroccan soldiers kidnapped, defiled and/or killed 2,000 - 60,000 Italian female civilians in what is considered one of the worst war crimes of the war