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TIL about the Spiegel affair, 1962 West German political incident in which the country's Minister of Defense arrested the chief editor of a magazine for writing an article critical of the nation's military.

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78RLr TIL of Barry Prudom, who killed two police officers and used his SAS training to evade capture, beginning the then biggest manhunt in British history. Prudom was eventually killed after having been tracked by an SAS instructor.
rNmwx TIL that Sir Christopher Lee has made multiple heavy metal cover songs of classic Christmas carols
b9Gl9 TIL about the time Karen tried to speak to the manager of a submarine
NGeN TIL that the Iranian government can, and will, sentence its citizens to the death penalty if they decide to change their religion from Islam
n5Kd TIL That England and Wales don’t report murders as murders unless someone is convicted. The US could drop its murder rate by half if it used the same method.