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TIL of Rupert Trimmingham, a black US Army soldier serving in WW2 who wrote a letter to the Army magazine about having to eat behind a train depot restaurant while German POWs were served inside in 1944, sparking support from other soldiers and contributing to the integration of the army in 1948.

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xxLw TIL the term mothership is from the whaling trade when small, fast ships were used to chase and kill whales. The dead meat from several boats was then brought back to the larger, slower ship for processing and storage until the return to land.
Eg9Po Today I learned that Jedidiah Cohen, who played cousin Rod in Home Alone only acted in the two movies. He left the acting world and graduated Harvard with a degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics. He is now COO and Co-Founder of rockethub.com
P1gmG TIL Six years after surviving a shark attack and following repeated appeals to South Australian authorities, Chris Blowes finally won a special exemption that gave him the legal right to possession of the tooth of the great white shark that took his leg. (Full story in comments)
1aeM4 TIL that Chaim Topol was 36 when he filmed Fiddler on the Roof.
ndxo TIL the Queen’s Guard at Buckingham Palace handle public nuisances not by ignoring them as seen in movies, but by shouting and pointing their loaded rifles at them.