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TIL that Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian prime minister during the Nazi occupation, was sentenced to death 2 years after he introduced death sentence to the country.

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MeZ1m TIL there's an Upgrayedded post-credit scene in Idiocracy
b9NPQ TIL: Jim Carey used to get to do stand up in his 7th grade class. He used humor to fit in and his teacher made a deal with him - if he was quiet all day he would get 15 minutes at the end of class where he did stand up using material from life, the class, or doing impressions of faculty members.
LxDv TIL of a Chinese general with 100 troops who had to defend a town against 150,000. He told his men to hide, flung open the gates and sat on the walls playing a lute. The opposing general, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat
V0r4 TIL that human bites are one of the most dangerous animal bites in the world due to the bacteria in our mouths.
J1RYj TIL a toddler was killed by an alligator while he was playing in a lagoon at a Disney resort in 2016. The father tried to wrestle the boy away from the alligator but failed and an intense search was launched. It took 16 hours to find the boy and he was found 10-15 feet from where he was last seen.