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TIL Incubators Were Once Displayed in Freak Shows to Save Premature Babies

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oVXL TIL: Shin Dong-hyuk is the only man in recorded history to escape a North Korean concentration camp in the “total control zone” and live to tell of it. He works tirelessly to alert the world to the vicious human rights abuses in North Korea’s brewing holocaust.
wAkW TIL A Florida Sheriff’s Office twice arrested the wrong “Ashley Chiasson”, who served 5 weeks in jail, even though there was a 20lb and 5 inch difference in the women and they had a different middle name. Key witnesses and victims were not shown photo lineups to identify the suspect in both cases.
mx7rR TIL that when Native Americans occupied Alcatraz Island in 1969, they offered to buy the island from the US government for $24 in glass beads and cloth, the price allegedly paid to Native Americans for Manhattan Island in the 17th century.
d8d7Z TIL New Zealand has a very high rate of teen suicide and in 2017 had the highest rate of any wealthy country in the world.
epmRL TIL when Mongols defeated the Poles at the battle of Legnica, they beheaded him and paraded his head. His wife recognized his mutilated body by his eleventh toe.