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TIL:Sophie Scholl was a German woman executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets.Her last words were: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to offer themselves up individually for a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go.”

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WkdeX TIL: According to legends Saint Bartholomew, an early Christian martyr, was skinned alive and beheaded. Bartholomew is often depicted holding his flayed skin or the curved flensing knife with which he was skinned
xVG95 TIL: The Hanshin Expressway is a 149-mile network of expressways in Japan. The highway’s most famous and unique feature is a small section of road that passes directly through three floors of an office building (Gate Tower Building) in Okasaka.
0wXZj TIL Siamese cats developed crossed eyes naturally to compensate for a genetic flaw in their eye structure where the left retina tilts right and the right retina tilts left. Looking straight ahead, it sees two different images. Crossing its eyes places the retinas in line to see more clearly.
7dL7 TIL that in 2009, a 17-year old runaway girl was admitted to a hospital and found to have rabies antibodies in her blood. After two weeks she was discharged and disappeared entirely. She is the first person ever known to have survived rabies with no intensive care.
d8VQ8 TIL Barnum and Bailey’s circus was so logistically efficient that prior to WWI the U.S. War Department would periodically send army officers to travel with them and study their transportation methods in order to improve the logistics of the army’s own artillery service (Davis, 2003, p. 78).