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TIL the best way to transport a rhino is hung upside down from a helicopter.

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OoNYL TIL of the 1976 Chowchilla bus kidnapping. Three men kidnapped 26 kids + their bus driver + forced them into an underground bunker. They never gave their $5 millions random note to the police; they took a nap after the crime + when they woke up the victims had already escaped + returned home safely.
loa47 TIL that the U.S. only spends 12% of its total budget on military, despite commonly held notions that it spends upwards of 40 - 70%.
OBLX TIL that a Royal Navy officer sentenced to death at Sachsenhausen concentration camp managed to shoot dead the commander of his firing squad using the man’s own pistol.
KOeJw TIL: The story that Victorian-era doctors used vibrators to treat female "hysteria" is an historical myth
4Xjg6 TIL In 1980 Marienetta Jirkowsky became the youngest and last woman killed attempting to cross the Berlin Wall. Fleeing East Germany with a friend and her fiance she was shot by border guards and died at the age of 18.