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TIL “The Muppet Christmas Carol” featured the first full-body shot of Kermit the Frog that showed him walking.

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yDg8 TIL Museums make you happier and less lonely, studies find
0d4jR TIL Ralph Ignatowski a US Marine who was captured by the Japanese in WW2. He was tortured in a cave for 3 days, his eyes and ears cut out, his teeth and skull smashed in. Many wounds to his stomach that was repeatedly stabbed with a bayonet, and his penis had been severed and stuffed into his mouth.
nDed TIL that there is strong belief that James Buchanan may have been the first gay President of the United States. Never married, Buchanan had a close relationship with another man for many years which he referred to as a “communion”. Andrew Jackson once called the pair “Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy”.
0jM TIL a prisoner once committed suicide by making a bomb from several packs of playing cards
E150w TIL the Germans had a master plan for the Mediterranean Sea which included closing the Gibraltar Straight to increase land for settlement