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TIL Belgian Colonists cut the hands of children if villages did not meet Rubber Quotas in Congo

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xeL1 TIL there was an experiment where three schizophrenic men who believed they were Jesus Christ were all put in one place to sort it out.
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m1YpR TIL about Adam Rainer, the only person verified to have been both a dwarf and a giant.