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TIL Georg Gärtner was the last German POW in America. He escaped from a camp in the U.S and took on a new identity. He was on the FBI’s most wanted list for 40 years, until he ‘surrendered’ on the Today Show. He was not charged as an illegal immigrant as he was brought to America against his will

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R8KQ TIL when a chinchilla is very happy it will jump and twist mid-air, sometimes bouncing off the walls. This is called “popcorning.”
VMeA0 TIL the most remote settlement on Earth is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, located on the island Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. The settlement nearest to it is on Saint Helena, 1350 miles away.
wAxY TIL People in least religious countries are happier
yVKRX TIL An American Flag survived the Challenger explosion and was the flag raised at the 2002 Winter Olympics
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