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TIL The Nazis used tickling as a form of torture

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rRo5x TIL that in 1978 Charlie Chaplin's corpse was dug up and held for ransom.
04KA TIL Mary Tyler Moore once offered a restaurant $1000 for a 65 year-old lobster so she could return it to the wild. Rush Limbaugh then offered $2000 to eat the lobster. The restaurant denied both offers and kept the lobster as a mascot.
5VGMp TIL in 2015, a 70 year old man in China spent 57 days in the hospital after a panda arrived at his farm and attacked him.
ADbP7 TIL Iceland was extensively forested before the first humans settled there. But within 500 years of their arrival 95% of woodlands had been cut down, leading to soil erosion, crop failure and the eventual abandonment of many farms.
kOxYe TIL doctors' illegible handwriting kills more than 7,000 people a year.