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TIL of Robert Lewandowski, a Polish soccer player who substituted into a Bundesliga game, and within less than 9 minutes scored 5 goals, smashing 4 Guinness records in the process

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AKkg TIL that the FBI sent MLK Jr. a letter trying to convince him to commit suicide
jDaE TIL of the 1077th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, a Soviet unit of mostly high school-aged female volunteers that fought a Panzer Division with anti-aircraft guns in the defense of Stalingrad.
dZaj TIL a teenager was once arrested by a policeman who scolded her for swearing on 911, even though the call made in the first place was for the teen’s dying father.
wLAj6 TIL about Gonzalo Guerrero, a Spanish sailor who was shipwrecked along the Yucatan Peninsula in 1511 and taken as a slave by a Mayan lord. He earned his freedom, became a respected Mayan warrior, and died fighting Spanish colonization of indigenous lands.
vQD8 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger saved a drowning man’s life in 2004 by swimming out 100 yards and bringing him back to shore