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TIL the lead singer of Chicago died after he picked up a 9mm pistol, said, “Don’t worry about it… Look, the clip’s not even in it,” then held it to his head and pulled the trigger

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EkV0 TIL that the Soviet Army raped over 2,000,000 German women after defeating Nazi Germany - an estimated 240,000 died in connection with the rapes. Antony Beevor describes it as the “greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history”
loyEA TIL the infamous "Year without a Summer" after the Tambora eruption in 1815 led directly to the invention of the bicycle, as people were forced to eat horses and other farm animals due to failing crops. They were called Laufmaschine or "dandy horses" and propelled by Flintstone-style foot power.
GAoLG TIL that there are over 17,000 fracture critical bridges in the US. These bridges are subject to collapse when there is a single structural failure.
4k8ao TIL Harland Sanders, founder of KFC, was excelling at cooking by age 7. When he was 6, his father died, and his mother had to go to work at a canning factory for days at a time, requiring Sanders to care for his two younger siblings, including the family cooking.
aGRJ TIL: If you wrote on your resume or a job application that you were Time magazine’s 2006 person of the year, you would not be lying.