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TIL that squirrels too can get fat.

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Z8DnQ TIL Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro is the Only Coast Guard Medal of Honor Recipient In history. and Saved 500 Marines during World War II and got a Purple Heart to.
w07o TIL of the Green children of Woolpit; a brother and sister with green skin who appeared by an English village and spoke in an unknown language.
0wE0A TIL Sindberg is virtually unknown in his home country of Denmark but considered a folk hero in China where he is estimated to have saved 20.000 during the Nanjing massacre. Armed only with the Danish flag he held off the Japanese from entering the makeshift shelter he set up in a cement factory.
mdjP TIL that mobile phones often have two completely different phone numbers attached to them which are both usable. One is the one you think your number is and the other is called an Mobile Identification Number (MIN), a number your carrier uses to ID you.
BgKgd TIL in 2012 LL Cool J broke the nose, jaw, and ribs of a man charged with breaking into his home. His family was sleeping when their home security alarm went off at 1am, "sending LL Cool J into action". After catching the man, he held him until the authorities arrived.