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TIL about Henry Tandey, the most highly decorated British private of World World I, who also became famous for supposedly not killing Adolf Hitler, then a German soldier, when he encountered him in Marcoing, France. However, Tandey's biographer and others believe the story is an urban legend.

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LkQRd The first-ever 2017 Flat Earth International Conference (FEIC) was held in Raleigh on Nov. 9 and 10, featuring some of the big names in round-Earth denial. Many flat-Earthers believe the Earth is a disc surrounded by an ice wall.
6EAb7 TIL Harriet Tubman had narcolepsy. She developed it after getting hit in the head with a 2lb weight and suffering a TBI. Wanted ads used to describe her as having “a habit of abruptly falling asleep.”
KYg8E TIL that Beefalo constitute a hybrid offspring of domestic cattle (usually a male), and the American bison (usually a female). The breed was created to combine the characteristics of both animals for beef production.
VMgZD TIL Steve Jobs insisted on buying iOS engineer Steve Forstall lunch with his employee badge. When Forstall protested, Jobs replied 'No, no, no. This is great. I only get paid $1 a year. I don't know who's paying every time I badge.'
LQ07Q TIL that Studebaker made the world's "largest living advertisement" in 1938 by planting 8k pine trees to spell "STUDEBAKER" if viewed from the sky. Even though Studebaker has been gone for over 50 years, their pine tree logo lives on and is in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.