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TIL In 1014, Byzantine Emperor Basil II captured several thousand Bulgarian soldiers, put them into groups of 100, and blinded 99 in every group. The last soldiers had only one eye gouged out and were ordered to lead their blind friends home. Upon seeing this, Tsar Samuel died of a heart attack.
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TIL of “Unit 731”, a secret Japanese research facility disguised as a water treatment plant during WWII. Responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes ever committed, researchers captured by the USA were secretly given immunity in exchange for the data gathered from their human experiments.
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TIL During Iraq-Gulf-War-2, US military/contractors would frequently detonate/destroy captured enemy weapons/amo so much so, that the stack often exploded at a respectable fraction of an early-style atomic bomb. (Here’s a .1 kiloton explosion complete with spectacular shockwave and mushroom cloud).
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TIL of Krao Farini, an American sideshow performer who was falsely advertised as the missing link between humans and apes. In reality, she had Hypertrichosis, which causes abnormal hair growth. Krao was allegedly captured in Laos, and was forced to perform in America since the age of 8 or 9.
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