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TIL about the Zone Rouge (Red Zone), areas of France so affected by WWI they have been declared off limits and defined as: "Completely devastated. Damage to properties: 100%. Damage to Agriculture: 100%. Impossible to clean. Human life impossible" Pollutants, such as chlorine and arsenic, and unexpl

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9w57p TIL N. Korea reportedly executed one of its defense chiefs by anti-aircraft gunfire because they fell asleep.
0LOM TIL that in 1589 John Stubbs was sentenced by Queen Elizabeth to have his hand severed for seditious writing, and before the axe fell, he cried out, “My calamity is at hand!” - thus becoming the only known victim of Elizabeth to incorporate a pun at his dismemberment. He then fainted.
a84Mo TIL; Flushing a toilet with the lid down could reduce airborne particles by as much as 50%.
9YyZm TIL: Cynthia Moon is rumored to have yelled "No siree, Bob!" before leaving General Burnside at the alter. Later Burnside would put her and her family under house arrest for spying for the Confederacy
xVYnb TIL that there was a youth movement against the Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany.