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TIL that when a Holocaust denial group offered $50,000 dollars to “prove that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz,” a camp survivor, Mel Mermelstein sent them definitive proof. When they refused to pay, he sued them and was given $90,000 when the court noted, “It is simply a fact.”

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NXdR1 TIL some flies cope with having tiny stomachs by regurgitating food into vomit bubbles to dry it out a bit and reduce the volume, and then swallowing it again before eating more; other flies release digestive juices to liquefy food into a predigested slurry they can swallow without teeth
E7W0 TIL Dung beetle is the strongest creature in the world.It can pull 1,141 times their own body weight.
0wPAR TIL Each year, approximately 60,000 Spanish Galgos (hunting dogs) are abandoned or tortured to death in Spain. By tradition, the dogs are often killed by hanging them by their necks with their feet just touching the ground. The more they suffer the more successful the following hunting season willbe
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8aWV8 TIL N.Machiavelli, fired from his job, subjected to torture and exiled in his farm after the fall of the republic, would return from the fields at dusk and put on a diplomat's formal attire just to make himself feel better while he was studying alone. At around this time he wrote "the prince"