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TIL a 90-Year-Old Lady Seduced and Killed Nazis as a Teenager

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O5m4 TIL The ceremony of the keys at the Tower of London has gone on almost uninterrupted for 700 years. It was late once during WWII due to a number of bombs hitting the guard room, knocking the guards and Yeoman warder over. The officer in charge personally wrote a letter to the king to apologise.
j6BZE TIL a bunch of comedians almost succeeded in pranking the 2007 Superbowl by getting the audience to spell out a message in lights during the Prince halftime show.
ner19 TIL during a charitable auction in Kiev, Ukraine, Wladimir Klitschko auctioned off his 1996 Olympic gold medal to a buyer who bid $1 million. After the sale, the buyer immediately returned the medal out of respect for Klitschko.
KOke6 TIL that bug spray doesn’t actually repel bugs, it masks your scent so they don’t find you as easily
gpy8 TIL of Operation Paul Bunyan which included 60 US troops, 64 South Korean Special Forces troops, 7 attack heli’s, an array of attack jets, nuclear ready B-52 bombers, and 12,00 troops on stand-by to finish cutting down a tree after North Korean soldiers killed 2 US soldiers cutting a tree.