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TIL that Popeye has four nephews called Pupeye, Pipeye, Peepeye and Poopeye.

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ADexn TIL that Sister Rosetta Tharpe pioneered many of the guitar techniques fundamental to modern rock/metal as early as the 30s and 40s
vgDB TIL of Max Kolbe, a Polish priest and Auschwitz prisoner who volunteered to take another man’s place in a starvation chamber. He lived for 10 days without food or water, and the man whose place he took survived the Holocaust.
WkGG4 TIL the first subminiature luxury (spy) item camera was produced in 1936 by Latvia while most publicly available cameras were huge.
XEkJj TIL in 2011, NYPD officer Patrick Luca was in a kayaking accident with his son Caden, 5. Caden had a life jacket, but Patrick didn’t. His last words were, “Keep blowing that whistle until someone finds you. Daddy is going to go under water now, and not come back up. Daddy is going to heaven.”
epeBk TIL that in World War 1, the American Expeditionary Forces attempted to enforce Jim Crow laws on the French to regulate the treatment of Black soldiers and officers. This was done because they were worried that these individuals were being treated with excessive familiarity and indulgence.