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TIL that a Royal Navy officer sentenced to death at Sachsenhausen concentration camp managed to shoot dead the commander of his firing squad using the man’s own pistol.

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m4Ay TIL that bagel-related injuries are so common that hospitals have special names for them.
xV7yD TIL that John Wilkes Booth attended Lincoln's second inauguration and was close enough to shoot him
rR9VM TIL Bill Darden (the founder of Red Lobster) opened his first restaurant, a luncheonette called The Green Frog in Wayward, Georgia at 19 in 1938. He refused to segregate customers by race. Segregation was a state law in 30’s Georgia.
rRDnd TIL of the Goldwater Rule, which keeps psychiatrists from commenting on public figures.
D91P TIL African Rapper Sam Stigillydaa thought that “American rappers talk about crazy things- drinking, drugs, violence against women, American blacks kill blacks. I hope African rap stays African and doesn’t turn crazy.”