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TIL over 2 million women were raped by the Russian Army after the fall of Nazi Germany.

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6nPX TIL Berthold Stauffenberg, brother of Claus von Stauffenberg (chief conspirator in 20 July assasination plot to kill Hitler) was executed by being strangled and then revived multiple times. The execution and multiple resuscitations were filmed for Hitler to view at his leisure.
65jY TIL That the national animal of North Korea is the human.
0vQ1 TIL there is a mobile space port floating out in the Pacific Ocean that has been in use since the late 1990s.
PYAlO TIL In 2003, a farmer carrying a syringe loaded with cow antibiotics was knocked down by one of his cows and was accidentally injected. He was transported to the hospital where they called Poison Control, who told him there were no known antidotes. He died less than an hour later.
LQOeZ TIL the Empire State Building opened during the Depression, and took 20 years to become profitable.