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TIL On the 1955 Episode of "This Is Your Life" in which Hiroshima survivor Kiyoshi Tanimoto, thinking he was doing a straight interview, is instead treated to a surprise meeting with the man who piloted the Enola Gay, Capt. Robert Lewis, co-pilot and aircraft commander.

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gRY4 TIL that a study found that an additional ten trees on a given block corresponded to a one-per-cent increase in how healthy nearby residents felt and that patients with rooms in hospitals overlooking trees vs. those who’s rooms do no also recover and are discharged by about one day faster.
7rax7 TIL Michael Jordan once tipped a waitress a $5 chip for bringing him a drink. Wayne Gretzky stopped the waitress, removed the $5 chip, grabbed one of the many $100 chips on Jordan’s side of the table, and gave it to her. Then he said, "That's how we tip in Las Vegas, Michael."
KxYw TIL When asked why nerve gas was not used in Normandy, Hermann Göring said the Nazis were dependent upon horse-drawn transport to move supplies to their combat units, and had never been able to devise a gas mask that horses could tolerate
4xKJ TIL A species of cavefish in Thailand has been documented walking and climbing waterfalls in a manner similar to four-footed creatures such as salamanders, in a find researchers call “huge” in evolutionary terms.
DAKg TIL There is a theory that says that a large part of the Amazon rainforest may be a giant ‘orchard’, the legacy of a people who flourished between 450BC and 950AD.