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TIL after WW2 the US government could not account for 7 German prisoners of war. The last of them, Georg Gärtner, surrendered himself on The Today Show in 1985

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RQd4 TIL if an aircraft is hijacked and forced to land at an airport, the pilot leaves the flaps of the aircraft down after landing as a covert visual cue to alert the control tower of a hijacking.
OG60g TIL that there is an island in the Pacific called Yap that uses circular stones as currency. The stones are too large to move so the ownership of the stones is passed by word of mouth to transact business.
QJJ6E TIL The "Sweet'n Low" artificial sweetener name was derived from an 1863 song by Sir Joseph Barnby, which took both its title and lyrics from an Alfred Lord Tennyson poem, entitled The Princess: Sweet and Low.
oBgwY TIL That the Happy Birthday song was Copyrighted until 2016
R5oj7 TIL about the Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka. It was a rocket-powered human-guided kamikaze attack aircraft. Although extremely fast, the very short range of the Ohka meant that it had to be carried into action as a parasite aircraft by a much larger bomber