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59p8 TIL Daniel Inouye was a Japanese American soldier in WWII who led an extremely triumphant battle against Nazi forces, in which he cooked a grenade in his right hand, was shot in his right arm, and pried the grenade out with his left and threw it to destroy a German bunker.
b9Lm4 TIL of Anthony de Lucy, 3rd Baron Lucy. De Lucy was an English knight and crusader who died on campaign in the year 1368. In 1981 De Lucy's extremely well preserved remains were found in a crypt beneath the ruins of St. Bees Abbey in Lincolnshire, England, which had since become a car park.
m1g0R TIL When Mary, Queen of Scots was executed, her little dog was found hiding under her dress. It had stayed with her the whole time, loyal until the very end.
PBjV TIL that a crayon molder named Emerson Moser worked at Crayola for 45 years and on his last day he revealed that he was color blind
wL5R6 TIL in Sweden you have a constitutional right to camp wherever you wish in the countryside as long as you do not camp too close to somebody's home. This includes being able to camp on private land.