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TIL the longest last name in the world was that of a German man whose last name was 40 letters long!

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oB4XE TIL about the Tucker State Prison Farm scandal, in which inmates were routinely beaten, tortured with needles under their fingernails, and had their genitals crushed with pliers and electrocuted. Up to 200 inmates may have been murdered and buried around the prison.
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