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TIL that Michael Caine is a Korean War veteran

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oB1vL TIL Russia and the United States are only 2 miles apart, and during the winter, you can walk between the two nations. There have been proposals to built highways and high-speed rail connecting Asia and North America the Bering Strait.
46pg TIL: In 2012 a crew of scientists on a ship discovered a rather large error in maps - an entire island marked on maps that did not exist.
El97 TIL L. Ron Hubbard commanded a sub chaser, fought a nonexistent sub, and shelled Mexico
L4JP TIL that in 1955 for every 100,000 US citizens there was 340 psychiatric hospital beds. In 2005 that number had diminished to 17 per 100,000.
rRAly TIL The Bond Movie trope of James Bond scuba diving somewhere, surfacing, then removing the wetsuit to reveal an unblemished full tuxedo, was inspired by a WW2 Dutch Spy who used the technique to sneak into Nazi-controlled Netherlands.