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TIL in 1944, an American named Robert Earl Hughes was drafted into the US Army. At the time, he weighed over 700 pounds and was able to walk without any assistance. He served 21 months.

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a88nL TIL that the official Hitler sent to coerce fascist Spain into joining the Axis in WWII was secretly opposed to Nazism. Unsurprisingly, he did not convince Spain to join the war. After the war, the Spanish government gave his widow a pension in gratitude.
VJe0 TIL that school teacher Gail Wise was the first ever purchaser of a Ford Mustang, paying $3419 for it in 1964 and becoming “the coolest teacher in school that year”. She still owns the car & it’s done 68000 miles.
loOBG TIL of Sgt Pilcher, who in 1960s London arrested Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Donovan, George Harrison, John Lennon, among others, for drugs possession. He almost got Eric Clapton, but the guitarist legged it out the back when Pilcher claimed to be the postman with a special delivery.
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