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TIL of Finnish man Lauri Allan Törni (born 1919) who fought in WW2 as both a Finnish and German soldier, and in the Vietnam War as a US Special Forces soldier. He was killed in a helicopter crash in 1965.

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54eD TIL for most states in the U.S. you don’t need to commit an arrestable offense in order to be lawfully accused of resisting arrest.
p4KN TIL: Mozart could pirate music at 14 by illegally transcribing it. He was so good at it, the Pope changed the law.
1P8V TIL that Chernobyl actually translates to “Wormwood” in Ukrainian. In the Bible, Wormwood is the name of an angel or star that makes the waters bitter and kills many people.
1e8W TIL that in 2001, hundreds of thousands of people across the world listed their religion on censuses as “Jedi”, a movement so big that it overtook major established religions, becoming the second most popular religion in New Zealand and surpassing the 400,000 people mark in the UK.
eGOk TIL the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship who sank in 2012, stated that he didn’t try to escape but rather “slipped off the ship when it turned over and fell into a lifeboat”.