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TIL that the man who led the attack on Pearl Harbor became a Christian evangelist after the war and settled in the US

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9Kvr TIL that 30 british officers tried to escape POW camp “Castle Colditz” (Oflag IV-C) by digging a tunnel. Because they read the compass wrong, they landed in the wine cellar of a german colonel. There they drank 137 bottles of wine, filled them with their urine and placed them back.
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vQrL TIL Racism and ethnic discrimination is legal under South Korean law
8eepK TIL that in October 1990, the British tunnel worker Graham Fagg was the first person to cross the English channel by land since the Ice Age.
pWWe TIL that in 1931, after Texas Rangers barricaded a bridge spanning the TX-OK border, Oklahoma Gov. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray appeared at the site armed with a revolver, backed by the Okla. National Guard, to reopen the bridge. The bloodless “Red River Bridge War” even got the attention of Adolf Hitler.