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TIL that in 1861, the entire student body of the University of Mississippi enlisted in the Confederate Army as a single company. They suffered a 100% casualty rate during the Civil War.

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ZPlv TIL that former US Secretary of State, political scientist and Nobel prize winner Henry Kissinger quoted saying “Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.” He never denied saying that.
mxdMP TIL of Pedro Alonso Lopez...one of the most prolific serial killers in history. Lopez was arrested in 1980 & convicted of 110 murders (claimed 200 more). He was only in prison for 14 years, in an asylum for 4 more, then was RELEASED & DISAPPEARED.
WkPYB TIL it has been established so far that 928 prisoners attempted to escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp complex (878 men and 50 women). For 196 prisoners the escape finished with success and the majority of them lived to see the end of the war.
grd07 TIL that macarons, the delicate French pastries, were first created in the Middle Ages in Italy. They were brought to France by Catherine de' Medici upon her marriage to King Henry II.
nkwd TIL that there are children in Japan that can do massive calculations in seconds with a purely imaginary abacus, where it looks like they are manipulating nothing but air.