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TIL Les Stroud (Survivorman) claims to have encountered bigfoot twice.

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jNMwE TIL flipping someone off dates back to before recorded history. The first written record of it's use was in a Greek play call "The Clouds", where a student gives Socrates the finger in response to a question about basic poem structure.
6En7W TIL about Martin Joe Laurello, aka Human Owl and Bobby the Boy with the Revolving Head, a German-American man who could turn his head 180 degrees
KBgR TIL when Alan Shepard was waiting for liftoff to become the first American in space, reporters asked him what he was thinking about. He replied “The fact that every part of this ship was built by the lowest bidder.”
68Z8 TIL of a Romanian Princess who opposed the alliance with Germany during WWII. She personally took custody of surviving Allied crews who were bombing her country, saw that they were cared for in her hospitals, and facilitated their escape to Italy. She helped more than 1000 US crewmen shot down.
QMvd TIL that Hippo milk is PINK!