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TIL 40% of all female suicides are from India

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4k1EJ TIL of Hans Litten, a lawyer who cross-examined Hitler in 1931 about a violent attack on political opponents, hoping to show Germans that Hitler wanted to violently overthrow democracy. Refusing to flee Germany after Hitler took power, he was imprisoned in concentration camps until dying in 1938.
5YRMk TIL of Guy Gabaldon, who captured over 1500 Japanese single handedly
Bg7wx TIL When President Macias of Equatorial Guinea was overthrown in 1979, the army couldn’t find him. He was discovered 2 weeks later by a villager, wandering through the Jungle, alone and delirious with the entire country’s foreign currency reserves in 2 suitcases.
N7K8Q TIL The song "Blame Canada" in The South Park movie, was nominated for an Academy Award for best original song. Unfortunately the song lost to Phil Collins' "you'll be in my heart" from the movie Tarzan.
R5p51 TIL of Bartolomé de las Casas, a 16th century Spanish priest who, in order to alleviate the suffering of Indigenous slaves in Spanish America, advocated using African and European slaves for at least most of the labor involved.