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TIL duck boat tours use replica or surplus military DUKW vehicles used for amphibious landings in WW2

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YpAjd TIL in 1965, a Swedish student was told by his fiancée in East Germany that she would never be able to leave the country to live with him in Sweden. Undeterred, he took flying lessons for a year, illegally flew a Cessna from Austria into Czechoslovakia, smuggled her out, and married her in Sweden
j6xa TIL Turkey has the highest age of consent in Europe at age 18 while Spain has the lowest at 13.
gJwW TIL that in 1947, the US War Department released a short film about how racist and bigoted demagogy allowed the Nazis to rise to power in Germany, and warns Americans not to fall for similar demagogy propagated by American racists and bigots.
gmmW TIL that during the “Bailout” in 2008/09, the Federal Reserve lent out $16 TRILLION dollars directly to banks.
gMP44 TIL that in 1997, a Muslim group complained about a 60-year-old statue of Muhammad at the Supreme Court. Rather than take down the statue, its description was changed to say it is supposed to look like Muhammad but doesn’t.