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TIL of “The Mad Piper” Bill Millin, the only bagpiper to land on the beach in Normandy. While men fell around him, he played his pipes throughout the battle. A group of captured German snipers was asked why they hadn’t shot him. They replied that they thought he’d gone insane and felt bad for him.

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6rlw TIL that Art Garfunkel likes really long walks. So much so that from 1983 to 1997, he walked from NYC to the Pacific Coast of Washington State with 40 different short breaks. In 1998, he began a walk across Europe which he completed in 2011 with Northern Greece.
0w58A TIL that some whale vomit is used in perfumes, Is also worth a fair bit if u happen to stumble across it on a beach walk, Reedited
gMY8X TIL that the famous mystical poet Rumi spawned a religious order of spinning Dervishes that is led by the Çelebis, the direct male descendents of the 13th century poet! The order have been classified as an intangible human heritage by UNESCO
Xo86 TIL carrots don’t actually improve eyesight. This lie was crafted by the British in WWII to explain their soldiers’ super human accuracy at night and to prevent the Nazis from finding out about the real reason for their accuracy: they had developed radar.
60wl TIL an island, located between Australia and New Caledonia, was charted on maps for over a century until a crew of scientists sailed to the location and found it didn’t exist.