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TIL that in 2013 a Chinese woman went on trial for murder after she squeezed a shopkeepers testicles so hard that he died.

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pe5G TIL that when the Creation Museum opened in Kentucky, a plane flew over with a banner that said “Thou shalt not lie.”
jNJwj TIL that Horton Hears a Who is an allegory for American attitudes towards Japan during and after World War II.
5Y6a8 TIL Of all the high-ranking members of the Nazi party – many of whom were Catholics – only Joseph Goebbels was excommunicated, and he was not excommunicated for his involvement in killing millions of people (mainly Jews), but because he married a Protestant woman.
vPPNx TIL about the movie "Saved from the Titanic," released just 31 days after the disaster. It starred an actress who'd been aboard the ship and wore the clothes she'd worn the night it sank. Reportedly traumatized by reliving the tragedy, she quit acting soon after. The film was lost in a 1914 fire.
6PjW TIL there is a species of bird which guides humans to beehives, so they can feast on the bee larvae after the human takes the honey.