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today i learned: green olives don’t have a bright red center, those are pimento’s stuffed in them. i am way to old to have just learned this…

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PYoYO TIL in 1969 LIFE magazine published a cover story called “The Faces Of The American Dead In Vietnam: One Week’s Toll.” Page after page of images of young men, 242 of them, killed in seven days of fighting the war in Vietnam.
W7d74 TIL that Hollywood Star Clark Gable enlisted as an aerial gunner during WWII, flew on several combat missions, and was nearly killed in one. Hitler, a fan of Gable, offered a substantial reward for anyone who could shoot down and capture him alive.
XmRD TIL that a woman was trapped in her body for 6 years before anyone noticed. In 1966 someone saw that she was trying to smile after hearing a dirty joke. Julia Tavalaro learned to communicate by blinking, became an author, and died at age 68, 37 years after the stroke.
9wgvm TIL that the Marvel Comics adaptation of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi was accidentally shipped out to stores a month before the movie was released, and when Mark Hamill, who is a comic book fan, noticed this, he contacted Marvel's sales manager and they tried to get the book off the stands
kOQlW TIL that in Japan you can hire someone to seduce your spouse (or anyone else)