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TIL Cashmere Wool Comes From Goats, Not Sheep

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8B4a TIL autistic savant Daniel Tammet learned Icelandic in just one week, and then went through a live interview on national TV in the language
xVmX5 TIL that Mao Zedong was responsible for more deaths than Hitler or Stalin.Political scientist Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014), a non-China specialist who made wildly higher estimates than any other historian—that Mao was responsible for 77 million deaths.
JYBm TIL that the most decorated unit in US military history is the 442nd Infantry Regiment, which was made up mostly by Japanese-American volunteers during WWII.
N740P TIL a jogger in Maine once drowned a rabid raccoon in a puddle after it latch onto her finger and would not release.
N7RNe TIL a Canadian 'Scared Straight' guard once took a teenager into a 'rape room' where several inmates assaulted him sexually. The officer then laughed and threw him to a wall, saying "Thats what happens to little fuckers like you".