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TIL Churchill in WW2 ordered all German Air Ambulances, painted white with red cross (Seenotdienst Search and Rescue) to be shot down when encountered

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69wk8 TIL lightning strikes have killed people who were talking on the phone by "coming through the phone line" & electrocuting them. In 1985, a lightning strike caused a teenager's death by electrocution after lightning hit a nearby telephone pole while he was on the phone inside his grandparents' house.
M7OKB TIL margarine was illegal in Wisconsin until 1967. Before that, Wisconsinites would sometimes smuggle in margarine from the south.
DQrbv TIL Ossi Ketola, CEO of controversial Counter-Strike skin gambling site “CSGOEmpire” is actually the biggest losing player of all time in televised poker; losing over $20 million in just two months of live-streamed cash games
eb7k TIL a scientist from Utah used his obituary to confess that not only had he never graduated from college or got a Ph.D, but that he never even learned what Ph.D stood for.
KYLYQ TIL that the infamous Whitest Kids U Know sketch "It's Illegal to Say..." was involved in a fairly high-profile Supreme Court case. The defendant posted an altered version of the controversial sketch's script with his wife's name being substituted in place of the President.