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TIL Hard rock legends AC/DC started out as a glam-rock act

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DjjJ TIL the kindness of the allied forces accidentally killed some Holocaust survivors. Upon being liberated, the soldiers brought food to the severely emaciated survivors. The problem is people who are that emaciated can’t handle large amounts of food so quickly. It ended up killing them.
nJx9 TIL that Peter the Great made moustaches a requirement for every soldier in the Russian Army.
LQlGV TIL that a rat king is not a large, singular rat, but a collection of rats that get their tails in a knot by accident (and squirrels can have this happen too); it has been recorded to happen about 60 times in the past 500 years
b9Kl7 TIL the tip of a potato peeler is designed to dig out sprouts
KNrG TIL British audiences for The Last Airbender fell into laughing fits because of the constant use of the word “bender”, a slang term for gay people.