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TIL In WWII, only 8,300 British and American POWs—3.6 percent—died in German custody. 3.3 Million Soviet POWs—57%—were killed because they were seen as racially inferior.

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mx64E TIL Loretta Lynn's Song "Coal Miner's Daughter" is 100% a true story. The song describes her dad working all night in the coal mine and hoeing corn all day. Her father really was "a coal miner and subsistence farmer," and she really was born in Butcher Hollow, KY.
4XKba TIL that in 1719, Parisian prisoners were offered to be set free if they married a prostitute and moved to Louisiana.
7wQM TIL that North Korean citizenship is better than Afghan Citizenship for visa free travel.
rR8rM TIL that the dragonfly is arguably the worlds greatest predator to ever exist, having a success rate of up to 97% (Compared to African Lions at 30%) and having no major evolutionary morphology change for around 320 MILLION years, making it one of the most evolutionarily successful animals ever
wVm6 TIL that PETA euthanizes about 99% of the animals that end up in their shelters.