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TIL: Four out of six Marlboro Men died died of smoking-related diseases, thus earning Marlboro cigarettes, specifically Marlboro Reds, the nickname “Cowboy killers”

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D1NBe TIL Adolf Hitler made France surrender on the train car where Germany originally signed the armistice with France in 1918.
d8dw7 TIL the breakup of Yugoslavia was arguably accelerated by a Serbian man who was injured while pleasuring himself with a glass bottle. When questioned by doctors, he blamed his injury on an attack by "Albanian separatists" and became a cause celebre for Serbian ultranationalists.
pYAWQ TIL that during WW2, for over a year, the British and the Germans had independently discovered how to jam each others' radar. But they decided not to use it, for fear of giving the tactic away to the other side.
gMEE4 TIL of Lucy Ann Johnson, a woman who disappeared in September 1961. Her husband reported her missing in 1965, and he was suspected of her murder. In 2013, Johnson was found alive. She said that she had left because her husband had been abusive.
AOw4 TIL of the “Night-Witches,” a Russian regiment of all-female aviators during WWII. Despite only flying slow, obsolete planes, the regiment is said to have dropped over 3,000 tons of bombs and each pilot to have flown over 1,000 missions.