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TIL a guy bought a baby monitor to keep an eye on his kid. Instead he saw live images of a young boy chained naked in the cellar. The boy’s mother was cutting off his flesh and eating it.

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PYXnV TIL It was common in American churches to auction pews to families as a means of raising income, as churches lacked government funding through mandatory tithing. Those lacking money for these pews were demeaned by their relegation to “free seats.”
YVbv TIL in 1944 a sixteen-year-old black student in Columbus, Ohio, won an essay contest on the theme ‘What to Do with Hitler after the War’ by submitting the single sentence, “Put him in a black skin and let him live the rest of his life in America.”
7rDZX TIL in Japan the majority of adoptees are childless adult males, adopted by families needing a strong heir for their businesses
1O8X TIL The Nation of Islam believe that white people were invented as an evil race by a scientist named Yakub, 6,600 years ago. The experiment also produced ‘red, yellow and brown’ people. Some of the white people Yakub created ultimately became gorillas.
v1VE7 TIL that people in the 18th century started wearing wigs because many people had hair loss as a result of syphilis. Out of solidarity other people started wearing wigs as well and so it became a trend.