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TIL that I’ve been eating pizza lunchables on hard mode.

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ngj9 TIL that during World War II a Dutch minesweeper evaded the Japanese for eight days disguised as an island. The crew covered the decks in cut trees and painted exposed surfaces to look like rocks. They moved only at night and anchored closed to shore by day, eventually escaping to Australia.
kJWAd TIL the folk legend adapted into a play ‘Doctor Faustus’ was loosely based on a real alchemist/magician Johann Georg Faust
4XN8w TIL Mel Gibson made more than $395 million from “The Passion of The Christ”, an epic biblical film he self-financed by $30 million.
e0NMk TIL Fidel Castro was obsessed with ice cream, once consuming 18 scoops in one sitting. His love for ice cream inspired him to implement a fully fledged dairy industry in Cuba and he even opened his own ice cream parlor.
GY1e1 TIL the Melanesian men who helped rescue JFK during WWII were invited to his inauguration, but were prevented from going by British officials who felt they weren’t dressed well enough to travel.