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TIL of the Edelweißpiraten. They engaged in hiking and camping trips, offered German adolescents an opportunity for sexual experimentation with the opposite sex and were antagonistic to the Hitler Youth.

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w40o TIL in 1847 Robert Liston amputated a mans leg in under 2.5 minutes, operaterating so quickly he amputated the fingers of his assistant as well. Both later died from gangrene, and a spectator reportedly dropped dead from fright, making it the only known operation with a 300% mortality rate.
x60R7 TIL why Japan drives on the left hand side of the road which goes back all the way to the Edo period (1603-1867) when Samurai ruled the country. In 1872, England won the bid to help Japan build it's railway system (railways were all left side running) and left hand side driving became "official".
KOnyJ TIL in 2021, someone leaked a memo which alerted the public to the existence of a mysterious neurological disease that first appeared in 2013, and indiscriminately effects dozens of people exclusively in New Brunswick. It's officially called "New Brunswick Neurological syndrome of Unknown Cause"
wxx7 TIL the towns from “Ghost Whisperer”, “Gremlins”, “Bruce Almighty”, “Back To The Future”, “Falling Skies”, and the first episode of “The Twilight Zone” (and many more) are all the same set, which is known as “Courthouse Square”
WkKoo TIL that there is another kind of Panda that is brown and super rare. It’s a subspecies of the giant panda and only inhabits in Qinling Mountains of China.