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TIL: Playboy is also published in braille

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NX4eJ TIL about Li Xouying, who lived through the Massacre of Nanking. While 7 months pregnant, she fought off three Japanese soldiers who stabbed her 37 times; she survived and went on to advocate for the victims.
VBGA0 TIL records indicate at least 700 children were born in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
OGy7R TIL When Tom Petty finished his album Full Moon Fever label head Irv Azoff refused to release it, insisting there were no hits on it. After he quit the album was released and spawned 5 hit singles, 3 of which went to #1, and went 5X platinum. The album had contributions from the Travelling Wilburys
gpj7 TIL the collective nouns we use for animals (gaggle of geese, herd of deer etc.) mostly come from the Book of St Alban’s published in 1486. It also included terms for professions such as a melody of harpists, a sentence of judges and a superfluity of nuns.
O8e7 TIL the Turkish general who enacted the 1997 coup, which freed Turkey from its last Islamist government, was arrested for that “crime” in 2012 by Erdogans government.