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TIL in 1988 a U.S. Marine was abandoned and died in the Mojave Desert. Search only started when his weapon wasn't returned.

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D18bp TIL that stethoscope was invented because the inventor felt uncomfortable placing his ear directly onto a woman's chest
BrdbK TIL when Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he carried with him a piece from the Wright brothers' first airplane
4Xab5 TIL a major factor for Joseph Stalin’s rise to power in the Soviet Union was that political rival Leon Trotsky missed Vladimir Lenin’s funeral - because Stalin gave Trotsky the wrong date.
Dbvj TIL that Kenny Rogers Roasters failed in the U.S. but continues to grow in Asia to this day
9Ymbm TIL about Operation Pluto, an operation to lay submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel in support of the Allied invasion of Normandy during WWII. The two pipelines, "Bambi" and "Dumbo", carried 180 million imperial gallons of petrol to the Allied Expeditionary Force in North West Europe.