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TIL Al Lewis, the actor who played Grandpa on The Munsters, had Charles Manson babysit his children

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Bngd TIL of a real-life Rambo, a man who evaded thermal-imaging helicopters, armored vehicles, and nearly 1,000 police officers for 48 days after murdering a state trooper with a sniper rifle in northern Pennsylvania. The man, Eric Frein, learned his skills as an Eagle scout and war reenactor.
QNWed TIL women POWs imprisoned by the Japanese on Sumatra in 1943-44 created an orchestra using only their voices, and managed to perform 3 concerts in captivity. The orchestra ended less than a year later, after more than half of the members died and the other half became too weak to sing.
x6pPB TIL The Maimonides Dream Telepathy experiments were real scientific studies conducted during the 1960s and 1970s at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Led by researchers such as Dr. Montague Ullman and Dr. Stanley Krippner, the experiments aimed to investigate the possibility of te
XbwR TIL that talking drums were used in Africa for centuries to transmit messages over long distances by mimicking speech. When these were brought to America during the slave trade, they were banned because slaves used them to transmit messages their masters couldn’t decipher.
59Vn TIL that the Dutch would ask Germans to pronounced ‘Scheveningen’ during WWII to identify them. Also with the Flemish, they would get people to say 'Schild en Vriend’ when trying to identify French-speaking spies [Section Four].