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TIL a Russian WWII survivor jumped ship in San Francisco, fled immigration, and lived for nearly 20 years in a Northern California redwood forest, where he built bark shelters that still stand today.

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Oo5P1 TIL that actor Steve Carell owns a general store in Massachusetts. He bought the store to prevent its abandonment and destruction in 2009 and continues to run the store to this day.
WQKA TIL there is a tiger named Kenny who is the only known tiger to have downs syndrome
woYMo TIL that the likeliest origin of "OK" is from a humorously misspelled "Oll Korrect" in a satirical article about grammar back in 1839
wAMM TIL Paul McCartney covered his own album “Ram” entirely in an “Easy Listening” format under the name Percy Thrillington.
Ypm1v TIL in spring of 1942 German U-boats terrorized east coast of US sinking fuel tankers and cargo ships with impunity and often within sight of shore and in less than 7 months destroyed 22 percent of the tanker fleet and sank 233 ships killing 5,000 ...more than 2X number who perished at Pearl Harbor.