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TIL In 1909 then MP Winston Churchill was attacked and whipped by a suffragette.

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W7VPo TIL some of the last German Soldiers to fight the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin were in fact foreign volunteers of the Waffen SS. Frenchmen of the 33rd Charlemagne Division and Scandinavians of the 11th Nordland Division joined together as some of the last defenders of the Third Reich.
N6kP TIL Frank Gusenberg, who was shot fourteen times during the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, when asked by the police who shot him replied “Nobody shot me.”
QJ6dE TIL in Japan, you can hire a handsome man to watch sappy movies with you and wipe away your tears. The company, "Ikemeso Danshi," (Handsome Weeping Boys) was born out of the idea that crying can be therapeutic and showing off your vulnerability can make you work better as a team.
DQaVD TIL: Ionization smoke detectors, one of the two most common home smoke detectors, contain radioactive material (americium-241) to detect smoke. There is no health threat as long as the detector is used as directed and not damaged.
ByYx TIL that intermittent fasting is linked to various health benefits such as a healthier brain.