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TIL Japan is offering smiling classes because some people forgot how to do so during the pandemic

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X70D TIL That in January of 1982 a plane struck the 14th street bridge in DC. Among the many heroes that day, Lenny Skutnik dove into the icy water to save a survivor, swam 30 feet to get her and carried her to the shore. Both survived
E1970 TIL of Grietje Scott, who at 90 years old revealed her secret to her family. She was actually a highly decorated member of the Dutch underground in WWII and part of an elite fighting force. She had never told anyone about it and not even her family knew.
DNWJ TIL During WWI, Dominic “Fats” McCarthy was awarded the Victoria Cross after he, virtually unaided, killed 22 Germans, captured 5 machine guns, 50 prisoners, and half a kilometer of the German front. When it was over even the prisoners he’d captured patted him on the back for what he’d done.
Wkeko TIL about glow-in-the-dark kitties. Scientists insert the GFP(green fluorescent protein from jellyfish) gene along with another gene that blocks feline AIDS, into the cat's unfertilized eggs. When the eggs are fertilized, glowing cats are produced, which means that they also have the anti-AIDS gene.
OgOe TIL that twin brothers separated at birth and reunited 39 yrs later lived almost parallel lives. Both were named James, both owned a dog named Toy, both had married twice; first to women named Linda and second to women named Betty. Both drove Chevys, smoked Salem cigarettes and drank Miller Lite.