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TIL the actor who played young Forrest Gump ended up enlisting in the Army and going to combat just like his character

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6EGoZ TIL of Witold Pilecki, Inmate 4859, who volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz to collect intelligence and escape two and a half years later. He was executed by the Soviet puppet state in Poland in 1948.

vPp0D TIL In 1952, the press criticized Marilyn Monroe on her red dress stating that she looked like she was in a potato sack. Few days later she responded with a photo of her in a potato sack dress

4XO1a TIL the band Dream Theater has a set of 5 songs across 5 albums that each deal with drummer Mike Portnoy's struggle with alcoholism. They are known as the Twelve-step Suite because each song is about certain steps in the 12-step program.

xVx51 TIL in the early 19th century the US Senate's desks were updated to make them more usable (i.e. a writing box and an extra drawer). Daniel Webster refused to update his desk, thinking it was a waste of money. The desk is still used as nobody wants to get rid of it since it belonged to Daniel Webster

x6rYb TIL the earliest known depiction of Christ on a cross is a piece of mocking graffiti in an ancient Roman boys school. Jesus is depicted with the head of a donkey, the text "Alexamenos worships his god" carved underneath.