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TIL the apple pie wasn't invented in America

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788DX TIL In 1974 at a Canadian army training base in Quebec, cadets were being trained to handle discarded explosives. A cadet asked one of the instructors if he could pull the pin on the grenade, and the instructor told him it was safe. It exploded, killing 6 cadets and injuring 65 others.
1Gad TIL three Mexicans got lost at sea and drifted from Mexico almost to Australia over the course of 9 months. They survived by eating raw fish and drinking rain water.
9Pgp TIL that Bugs Bunny accidentally transformed the word nimrod into a synonym for idiot because nobody got his joke comparing Elmer Fudd to the Biblical figure Nimrod (a mighty hunter).
4MZ5 TIL that in his second book written in 1928 , Hitler ranked the U.S. as the MOST dangerous potential enemy. He saw majority of Americans as “Aryans” ruled by Jewish plutocracy; he saw UK as potential ally, Russians “incapable of intelligent thought” and France rapidly “Negroizing” itself
p86rN TIL that a long full grown beard without a mustache, like the type worn by Amish men, is called a "Shenandoah", which is not to be confused with the "chinstrap" which also is a beard without a mustache but does not extend below the jawline.