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TIL the first deaf person in recorded history was a painter

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XE1LQ TIL of 21-year-old Lieutenant Zvika Greengold, an Israeli tank officer who fought in the Yom Kippur War for 30 hours straight, destroyed up to 60 enemy tanks (swapping his own every time he sustained damage), and fooled the Syrians into believing they were facing a company sized force.
jNnvj TIL of Semyon Hitler, a Soviet soldier who fought against the Nazis in WW2. Despite his unlucky name, he was given a medal for bravery during the war. After the war, his family legally changed their name to Hitlev.
DEEP TIL Napoleon said of torture: “It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know.”
MJ9K TIL: Hundreds of Dodge Chargers were destroyed during filming of “The Dukes of Hazard”. This created such a shortage of available cars that by the final season they had to resort to using a radio controlled miniature.
kgem TIL Alamo Drafthouse once used an angry voicemail from a kicked-out texter as marketing material, promoting their serious moviegoing image