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awm4o TIL that John Lennon wrote I am the Walrus just to mess with people trying to find meaning in his songs
Yp5lr TIL In 2007 a man in a wheelchair was hit by an 18 wheeler. The handles were ensnared within the grill of the truck and he was pushed at over 60 mph for several miles on the highway. Amazingly, he escaped without injury.
4XReg TIL that the last survivor of the Crimean War, which ended in 1856, died in 2004 at the age of 160. She was a female tortoise named Timothy who was a mascot for several British naval vessels during the war.
9am6 TIL that during the Falklands War a 37km “Red Cross Box” safe zone for hospital ships hosted 4 British and 3 Argentine vessels, which often cooperated to save wounded combatants
E1NMd TIL that after the 2011 Japanese nuclear plant in Fukushima was disabled by an earthquake tsunami double whammy, elderly Japanese people volunteered to do repairs to save young people from radiation exposure.