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TIL because he felt his students couldn't properly understand how the Nazis came to power, a teacher roleplayed as an authoritarian. He managed to start a proto-fascist movement that swept across the school— the students even took it upon themselves to rat out those who were disloyal

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m15mO TIL of Julio Nivelo, who in 2016, stole a bucket of gold from an armoured truck, which was parked in Manhattan. Seeing, the van was guarded by only two guys, one of whom was the driver, Julio said, he felt like the pail belonged to him.
9w0eM TIL during the 2010 Copiapó mining accident, 33 miners were trapped underground for 69 days after a cave-in, one of the miners created a makeshift radio from mining equipment, which allowed the miners to communicate with rescuers and maintain morale during the ordeal.
j7BR TIL That despite homosexual sex being punishable by death (potentially) in Iran, sex change operations are perfectly legal and often state-funded. Iranians account for the second highest amount of sex changes in the world, behind Thailand.
Mw0m TIL That Leonardo da Vinci claimed to have dissected more than 30 people in his pursuit to further understand human anatomy, and his more than 240 detailed drawings and over 13,000 words of observations revealed many then unknown characteristics of our bodies. However, all this remain unpublished.
lVPG TIL Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics, which is about happiness and what makes life worth living, was only published for the first time in a modern language in 2011