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TIL Karl Kruszelnicki's mother managed to escape Auschwitz during a shortage of Zyklon B.

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4kNkN TIL of camoflauge trees: WWI-era hollow, fake trees placed in no man's land to spy on enemy trenches
9XGm TIL Stan Lee’s use of alliterative names in his comics (e.g., Peter Parker, Bruce Banner, Matt Murdock, etc.) was due to his poor memory. He thought that using names that started with the same letter would help him remember the character’s whole name.
KXBB TIL of a British marine who threw himself on an enemy grenade, walked away with a nosebleed and got himself the George Cross
R7ew9 TIL Harry Houdini was an aviation pioneer and the pilot of the first controlled, powered flight in Australia
PYbaZ TIL:New research finds there is no “right thing” to say when you want to be supportive. Trying too hard to say the right thing could actually lead you to make “clumsy statements that do more harm than good”. Your “mere presence and sympathy is likely enough”.