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TIL During the Winter War, the Finns would prop up frozen Soviet soldiers to intimdate the troops

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ADElB TIL Canadians in WW1 regularly executed prisoners and exploited truces. "[He] described the practice of lobbing tins of corned beef into a neighbouring German trench. When the Canadians started hearing happy shouts of “More! Give us more!” they then let loose with an armload of grenades."
D1RZP Today I learned that the Ottoman Empire executed the last ruler of the First Saudi state while he was forced to listen to lute music which he forbade listening to.
NXg8b TIL: After traveling more than 1 billion miles, a Japanese spacecraft brought 1,500 grains from an asteroid back to Earth in 2010. It was the first time samples from an asteroid had been brought back to Earth.
D8ZP TIL the super-rich can watch theatrically-released movies at home via a $35,000 streaming box for $500 each (if you own a 100+ inch screen and pass a background check first)
j6OnE TIL Warner Bros. had so little faith in the movie Bonnie and Clyde (1967) that they offered first-time producer Warren Beatty 40% of the gross instead of a minimal fee. The movie went on to gross over $70 million