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TIL I learned about Rolinga, an 80s/90s urban tribe from Argentina based on the Rolling Stones aesthetics and music

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D1EDg TIL That there is a manga with a parody of the Russian President as the protagonist, getting isekaied (transported) to a magical world and his adventures there.
kOdMe TIL of the half-a-million people that have died in the post 9/11 wars, a quarter-million were civilians
p864N TIL that people didn’t use to sleep for a straight 8 hours. Before electric lights and street lamps, people would sleep from ~8 to midnight, wake up, and then sleep from ~2 to sunrise. They’d use their couple of midnight hours to pray, read, or have sex
OoxpX TIL of Hans Munch - the good man of Auschwitz - the only doctor who refused to participate in the selection process. He created elaborate, safe, experiments to keep his subjects from being exterminated. He is the only person to be acquitted at the Auschwitz Trials.
a86MM TIL that following their execution (by beheading) for treason, the heads of Baron Saye and his son-in-law were unceremoniously impaled on pikes by a mob and pushed together so that they appeared to kiss.