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TIL in the 1941 Battle of Raseiniai, a single Russian KV tank stopped an entire German Division for a full day until it finally ran out of ammunition

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KOMmQ TIL that in 1966, Kenneth McDuff murdered three people and was sentenced to death. His sentence was later commuted to life, and he was paroled in 1989. He went on to murder at least four more people, was caught in 1992, once again sentenced to death, and executed in 1998.
gM7yb Today I learned that a German company sold radioactive toothpaste containing thorium until the US nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Source in German)
MgWB TIL that if you earn more than $21,000 dollars per year, you are among the top 4% richest people in the world
M7j9A TIL that A Time to Kill by John Grisham was inspired by the case of a black man named Willie James Harris. Grisham swapped the races for his novel
BrXlD TIL that 23% of Americans aged 18-34 are living with parents (increase from 15% in 1975).