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TIL Steve-O Celebrated 10 Years of Sobriety by Participating in a Triathlon

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neB5W TIL that Nazis ordered the Minsk Ghetto to turn over a Jewish resistance leader, Hersh Smolar, hiding in a hospital. They handed over a bloody passport and said he'd been killed in a roundup shooting. The Nazis fell for it. Smolar survived the war.
p8P8G TIL Instagram can sub-license your content. This means that it could licence a user’s photograph or video to any third party, for free, without seeking permission, giving any notice or offering any payment to the user.
XEMYD TIL that cows routinely escape slaughterhouses in NYC, and often evade police for hours once they’re out.
b6oJ9 TIL Whale foreskin is used to make leather goods.
ADRbn TIL about Grace Hopper (1906-1992). She was rejected by the Navy during WWII due to her age, her weight-to-height ratio and utility as a mathematics professor. Instead she became a programmer of the Harvard Mark I computer, and later popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages.