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TIL the Vatican has the World’s highest crime rate
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TIL - When Roald Dahl attended school, the nearby Cadbury chocolate factory would occasionally send boxes of new chocolates to the school to be tested by students. It is believed that this likely inspired him in writing his third children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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TIL of execution by Breaking Wheel that would start with tying the body to a wheel, breaking the bones of the limbs, braiding the broken limbs through the spokes and leaving the body to be eaten by scavenging animals and birds.
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TIL in the final weeks of WWII, Allied torpedo bombers attacked two large German ships even though both ships were flying several large white flags. Nearly all of the 7,000 concentration camp refuges aboard these ships were killed.
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TIL that the United States granted the Philippines independence in 1946.
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TIL Emperor Caligula would chew his victims testicles as a form of torture.