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TIL a British POW in WWI was released by the Germans so he could visit his dying mother, and then returned because of a promise he had made the Kaiser.

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6MQY TIL the Soviet Union and the United States were originally in talks to go to the moon together during the Cold War. Nikita Khruschev was poised to accept the plan but then President Kennedy was assassinated. The Soviets did not trust Vice President Johnson, so Khruschev rejected the plan.
x5XB TIL the world may run out of chocolate by 2020
neeyW TIL a Potter's field is a place where unclaimed bodies are buried. The Potter's field for New York is Hart Island in the Bronx and it is home to over one million bodies.
kJOZm TIL of “Nobel Disease”, a tendency for Nobel Prize winners to adopt pseudoscientific ideas later in life
9Y1KM TIL a man spent 16 years typing numbers from one to one million to feature in the Guinness Book of Records