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TIL that an estonian guy built an amphibious car from Toyota Land Cruiser and is trying to circumnavigate the globe with it. He recently got into trouble near Cape Verde but still tries to continue his trip.

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D1GgJ TIL about Henry Tandey, the most highly decorated British private of World World I, who also became famous for supposedly not killing Adolf Hitler, then a German soldier, when he encountered him in Marcoing, France. However, Tandey's biographer and others believe the story is an urban legend.
04G5 TIL the final design for Chewbacca was based on an illustration for a 1975 novelette by George R.R. Martin
6EbV7 TIL that Gandhi left his Indian wife to have a homo-erotic relationship with German-Jewish bodybuilder named Hermann Kallenbach.
epB85 TIL At age 9, Sorbono Bari became the youngest professor in the world and also nominated for a Nobel prize. Harvard University recognised him as a scientist when he was 6
epZoL TIL The tree kangaroo is a marsupial adapted for arboreal locomotion. They are slow and clumsy on the ground, however, in trees, they are bold and agile