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TIL: Usain Bolt Has Never Run a Mile

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W7VPo TIL some of the last German Soldiers to fight the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin were in fact foreign volunteers of the Waffen SS. Frenchmen of the 33rd Charlemagne Division and Scandinavians of the 11th Nordland Division joined together as some of the last defenders of the Third Reich.
Ly80 TIL: The common spiral depiction of the Milky Way Galaxy used in media is actually another galaxy:Messier 74. Because we dwell within the Milky Way Galaxy, it is impossible for us to take a picture of its spiral structure from the outside.
ow78 TIL Producers of the Big Bang Theory discovered a nearly identical show called “The Theorists” being produced and broadcast in the country of Belarus. Legal action wasn’t necessary because when the actors found out it was a rip-off they all quit and it was cancelled.
PDnO TIL Apollo 10 was given limited fuel for orbiting the moon to discourage the astronauts from attempting a Lunar Landing ahead of the scheduled Apollo 11.
l79nA TIL the first non-American actor to play Superman / Kal El was Lee Quigley. As the infant in the original 1978 movie he would later tragically die at the age of 14 after inhaling solvents