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TIL Otto Skorzeny was an unrepentant Nazi, a senior SS officer, who remained involved in right-wing causes his whole life, later it’s emerged that he was also an agent and hitman for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service.

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awe0Z TIL that two Welsh tourists in Australia, Rhys Owen Jones and Keri Mules, once got so drunk that they went to SeaWorld and swam with dolphins, let off a fire extinguisher in the shark enclosure and stole a penguin called Dirk
9wyj6 TIL: Bananas are radioactive - Bananas have naturally high levels of potassium and a small fraction of all potassium is radioactive. Consuming one banana would deliver a total dose of 0.01 millirem (0.1 microsieverts) of radiation. (This is a very small amount of radiation)
oBBoo TIL Juan Carlos I (former King of Spain) once told Hugo Chavez to shut up (¿¡Por qué no te callas!?) when the Venezuelan leader called a former Spanish prime minister a "fascist" and "less human than snakes."
4NMo TIL The oldest known beer advertisement comes from Elba, Mesopotamia nearly 4,000 years ago and features a woman with enormous breasts holding two large goblets and saying “Drink Elba, the beer with the heart of a lion.”
A41w TIL of the Jetsons/Flintstones theory. The theory states that The Jetsons live in the past while The Flintstones live in the future. Because of nuclear fallout people were forced to build a city in the sky, after the Earth recovered years later people reclaimed it, resulting in the Flintstones time