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TIL actor Ed O'Neil's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was placed in front of a shoe store

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nejpY TIL of Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian commando in WWII. The lone survivor of an ambush, he survived an avalanche, severe frostbite and snow blindness, having to amputate his own toes, and being relentlessly pursued by Germans for nine weeks before being whisked to safety in Sweden by locals.
PYgyg TIL 20% of teens in the UK think Winston Churchill is a fictional character
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