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TIL that during Christmas in 1915, a year after the Christmas Truce, when thousands of Allied and Entente soldiers traded gifts and played soccer in no-man’s-land, the Germans tried to make it happen again with Canadian soldiers. The Canadians responded by opening fire

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d8MyZ TIL Living above the third-floor drastically reduces your chances of surviving a cardiac arrest.
OZY7 TIL that Roy Sullivan is the record holder for most survived lightning strikes. He was struck in a fire lookout tower, in his truck, in his front yard, in a ranger station, twice while driving away from the storm, and immediately after the seventh strike he fought off a bear with a tree branch.
l8lB TIL that the Norwegian army has knighted a penguin
DQwjr TIL that in 1992, the United States Department of Commerce prohibited the manufacture, sale, and shipping of toy guns unless they have an orange tip or are entirely brightly colored.
4kKrR today i learned: green olives don’t have a bright red center, those are pimento’s stuffed in them. i am way to old to have just learned this…