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TIL a 90-Year-Old Lady Seduced and Killed Nazis as a Teenager
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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.
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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.
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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.
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TIL that bug spray doesn’t actually repel bugs, it masks your scent so they don’t find you as easily
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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.