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TIL about Masoud, a black slave belonging to Fatimid Caliph Al Hakim. Al Hakim would wander the streets of Cairo looking for deceptive merchants, and when he discovered one he would have Masoud publicly sodomise the man.

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jRGn TIL that if your second toe is longer than your big toe it is a condition called Morton’s Toe and that some statues, including the Statue of Liberty, have feet sculpted that way.
LABV TIL of Japan’s Unit 731, which committed some of the most terrible war crimes in World War II, including human vivisections, innoculation of diseases, and exposure to radiation and poison gas to thousands of innocent Chinese and Russians. These crimes are still denied by the Japanese people today.
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