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TIL German interrogator Hanns Schraff didn't torture his American prisoners during WWII. Instead he would befriend them, take them on walks in the forest or the local zoo, and even allow one to fly a plane. He was so good that prisoners didn't realise they were revealing secret informations.

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RaY4 TIL The British military still practice bayonet charges, and in Iraq after being ambushed and running out of ammo, 20 men from the 16th Air Assault Brigade charged 600ft through open ground, overran enemy positions that outnumbered them 5 to 1, and left with no casualties
b9P7E TIL that Svetlana Savitskaya—the second woman in space—arrived at Mir (first modular space station) in 1982, she was greeted with an apron as a welcome present, and jokingly told to get to work in the kitchen by her fellow cosmonauts.
v1vBK TIL The infinite monkey theorem was tried by putting a computer in a monkey cage. "Not only did the monkeys produce nothing but five total pages largely consisting of the letter S, the lead male began by bashing the keyboard with a stone, and the monkeys continued by urinating and defecating on it."
mx6dy TIL that, during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the extreme heat caused one man's brain to turn to glass.
VGDB TIL that in the late 19th century there was a dog, Bob, who would hitch rides all over the South Australian railway system. He had no owner but was widely known to railwaymen of the day. When he died he was eulogized around the world and was lauded as “the king of outcasts”.