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TIL about Alvin Straight, an American man who travelled 240 miles on a riding lawn mower from Laurens, Iowa to Blue River, Wisconsin to visit his ailing brother in 1994.

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kOxWg TIL WWII Submarine Captain John Philip Cromwell stoically went down with his stricken sub Sculpin rather than allow himself to be captured by the Japanese. Cpt Cromwell had knowledge of top secret highly sensitive Allied war plans that the enemy may have extracted from him through drugs or torture,
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BMOD TIL in their 1983 film “Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life,” the Pythons defined the meaning of life as “Try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
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