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TIL After assaulting two people, Monroe Isadore, a 107-year-old man from Arkansas, died in a shootout with a SWAT team.

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Wk6W9 TIL an all African-American, female WWII Battalion was sent to England to streamline the mail for all American soldiers in Europe. It was thought soldiers without access to mail lost morale. 6 month's work was completed in 3 as they devised a system to send the packages and worked 7 days a week.
ANoba TIL That perpetual and eventually habitual complaining is pretty bad for your brain
kJ5D7 TIL that the 2005 film "Hostel" negatively affected Slovakia's and the Czech Republic's reputation. Director Eli Roth was invited on an all-expenses-paid trip to clear up the false allegations made in the film, which portrayed the countries as crime-ridden, lawless, poor, and dangerous places.
4XmJJ TIL acts of bestiality appear several times in European cave art, with the oldest depiction being from a cave in Portugal dating back to the Paleolithic period.
pAe8 TIL that The biggest porn company in the entire world is MindGeek from in Canada. They own several “tube sites” like Pornhub, YouPorn and Redtube as well as other traditional content providers like Brazzers and Digital Playground.