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TIL Canadian soldier Léo Major single-handedly captured 93 German soldiers during World War II

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eNYk TIL that one French-Canadian soldier liberated the entire Dutch town of Zwolle during the course of an action-packed night in 1944, burning down Gestapo HQ and taking more than 100 German soldiers prisoner
PY1Ng TIL Raúl Esparza (ADA Rafael Barba in Law and Order: SVU) has been nominated in all Tony categories for which an actor is eligible.
e0PJ5 TIL that a man named Oswald can be heard only at Embankment station saying "mind the gap". In 2012 they were planning on changing all voiceovers but decided not to at this station when Oswalds wife told them that he had passed away in 2007. She loved listening to him when on the way to work.
8aZVL TIL that in order to aid recruitment during WWI, the British allowed men from the same town to serve together in "pals battalions". This was stopped after the Battle of the Somme, in which casualties were so high amongst some units that almost the entire male population of some towns was wiped out.
g7r7 TIL when Nintendo launched the SNES in America, some parents thought Nintendo was manipulating their children into purchasing an unnecessary system, and forced their kids to go to therapy sessions to show them how they were being “exploited”