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TIL Lin Zhao’s parents learnt their daughter was executed on 1968 only after a Communist Party official asked them to pay the five-cent fee for the bullet used to kill her

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Xwlk TIL Czech Nurse Honoured for Sleeping with Nazi Soldiers to Give Them STDs and Kill Them
rRDl4 TIL that the reason that both male and female genitals are darker than the surrounding skin is due to sex hormones released by puberty.
VMm1G TIL, disco music is a scientifically used “mild stressor” used in animal studies to assess the animals’ responses to stress.
6EExX A few transplants out of the 28,000 performed every year involve the same organ spending time in more than two bodies. The most common scenario arises when a patient in the late stages of a disease receives a new liver or kidney as a last-ditch effort to keep him alive. If he dies shortly after, and the new organ wasn't the cause, re-transplanting may be an option.
b6OZ4 TIL Lacrosse descends from a version played by Native Americans in the 17th century. Games could last several days with as many as 1,000 players per team, on a field with goals up to 6 miles apart. Sticks were so treasured, players were often buried with them upon death.