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TIL: While fighting in WWI, British soldier Henry Tandley spared the life of a wounded German soldier. The wounded German soldier ended up being Austrian corporal Adolf Hitler.

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16rJP TIL that the AC/DC song "Whole Lotta Rosie" was written about an obese Tasmanian woman, with whom the frontman had a one-night stand with. Rosie’s identity remain unknown until 2021, when she was identified as Rosie Garcia, who died in 1979. This year, a photo of her was released for the first time.
JYeaV TIL that Former President John Tyler tried to organize a peace conference in 1861 to avert a civil war. At the same time, his granddaughter was ceremonially hoisting the flag for the Confederate convention in Alabama.
R7aB6 TIL: America is home to “Body Farms,” places where corpses are just tossed out into nature to rot for scientists to study decomposition and forensics.
xVVB5 TIL of the abolitionist Cassius Clay, who as well as giving his name to the famous boxer was often physically targeted for his beliefs, installing armoured doors and two cannons in his office and once disarming and cutting out the eyes of an assassin who had shot him.
4X6gN TIL of Wisdom—the world’s oldest albatross who reunited with the man who first tagged her in 1956. Having spent 40 years apart, Chandler Robbins picked her up by chance among a colony of more than 250,000 nests and discovered she’d also become the oldest albatross to ever give birth to a chick.