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TIL Russian Salyut Spacecraft carried working machine guns

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wLmNY TIL About Walther Wenck, the German commander put in charge of saving Berlin from soviet forces in spring 1945. Understanding the futility of this effort, as they had no resources and were facing soviet wrath, he instead evacuated hundreds of thousands of citizens and surrendered to the Americans.
Dv1p TIL that Christopher Columbus was never painted. Therefore, every image that we have of him is a fake and only an assumption of what we think he looked like.
077M TIL that Michael Jackson would beatbox all the parts of his songs to the musicians for them to perform
neApd TIL about Ben Carlin, an engineer from Australia who, after several false starts, circumnavigated the globe in a modified amphibious army Jeep in the 1950s. At the time not many people actually believed he had done what he claimed.
4kpB5 TIL John B. Stetson invented the cowboy hat after moving out West to treat his tuberculosis.