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TIL about Jock Sturges, who loved photographing nude adolescents. In 1998, unsuccessful attempts were made to have his books The Last Day of Summer and Radiant Identities classed as child pornography in Arkansas and Louisiana. He also pled guilty to an unnatural and lascivious act with a child.

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oKWo TIL Elephants rape and kill rhinos. There have been at least 63 confirmed instances in Pilanesberg Park alone.
WMB4 TIL that 19/20th century rural farmers would connect telephones to barbed wire fencing, creating an autonomous, decentralized network
78g0x TIL the first time that a sighting of orcas killing a great white shark in Australian waters was documented was by a group of 23 tourists while shark cage diving. The group watched as a pod of 4 adults and 2 calves would herd the shark to the surface and slam it until the hunt was completed.
Jbbj TIL Punishment Does Not Make Psychopaths Improve Their Behavior
5J1n TIL a priest imprisoned in Auschwitz for aiding Jews volunteered to die in a stranger’s place. He lived for 2 weeks without food or water before being given a lethal injection.