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TIL that an octopus has 3 hearts and blue blood

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N7RNe TIL a Canadian 'Scared Straight' guard once took a teenager into a 'rape room' where several inmates assaulted him sexually. The officer then laughed and threw him to a wall, saying "Thats what happens to little fuckers like you".
5WLP TIL in AD 1378 an iconoclastic Sufi Muslim chiseled off the nose of the Great Sphinx of Giza after noticing that area farmers worshiped the monument in hopes of reaping a good harvest. He was subsequently lynched by the angry locals for vandalism.
ak4b TIL that in 1986 a federal prisoner escaped during a prisoner transfer. A week later he returned in a stolen helicopter and broke out his girlfriend.
5YX5k TIL of Jacob H. Smith, an American officer who launched a notorious attack during the Filipino-American War which killed as many as 50,000 civilians. During the attack - for which he was court-martialed - Smith was heard yelling "kill everyone over the age of ten."
d8lrK TIL after the Bulldozer Revolution in Serbia, the resistance set up a course in non-violent protest