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TIL: A Gurkha, armed only with a knife, fought off 40 men trying to assault an 18 year old girl, killing several.

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6avw TIL Steven Spielberg took no profits from making Schindler’s List, and used all of the them to create the Shoah Foundation. He even referred to the profits as “blood money.”
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