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TIL that Damsel Fish will rush towards divers to get help in remove sea urchins

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0vJL TIL When Paris fell to the Nazis on June 14, 1940, French resistance fighters cut the elevator cables to the Eiffel Tower. This meant that if Hitler wanted to hoist a swastika flag, a soldier would have to climb the roughly 1710 stairs to the summit platform.
lom71 TIL Hans Christian Andersen, author of The Little Mermaid, was not considered a Sci-Fi writer however, he predicted the invention of both the machine gun & the Air Force in his book 'The Wicked Prince' written in 1840.
N6QM TIL Rickey Henderson was so proud of his $1,000,000 bonus check he framed it instead of cashing it.
R549l TIL a black slave soldier that fought in the revolutionary War lived to see the abolition of slavery, about 80 years after the war ended
4kn5o TIL that when Gallup conducted a survey in 1944 asking Americans "What do you think we should do with Japan after the war?" 13% favored "Killing off" all the Japanese, 33% thought it should be split up or destroyed while the rest favored either supervision or rehabilitation.