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TIL (As an American) that the UK version of the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads were done using Mitchell & Webb

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0dP1p TIL in the US Civil War, US forces under inept General Ben Butler were repulsed in the first attempt at taking Petersburg in part by a scratch force of old men, young boys and jail inmates and is referred to as "The Battle of The Patients and Penitents" and "The battle of Old Men and Young Boys"
BreRb TIL: In Soviet labor camps, prisoners would ingest a condom attached to a length of rubber tubing, fill it up with raw alcohol then smuggle themselves back into the camp. Once there, they would be suspended upside down by the other prisoners and used as a human keg.
oBYWR TIL that in 1937, Joachim von Ribbentrop almost knocked over King George VI of England when he greeted him with a "stiff-armed" Nazi salute. At the time, Ribbentrop was the German ambassador to England.
e0vkg TIL that Nickelback is seriously considering making a Slayer cover album
DQw5D TIL: about birch pollen and accompanying allergies. This explains why skin on apples, almonds, and soy milk sieze up my throat.