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TIL that fans dont make the room colder, they make you colder by evaporating your sweat

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YpdmB TIL that Lars Larsen, late owner of Jysk (a Dutch furniture company) has sent a free copy of his self-published book to every Danish household, and thus, effectively made it the number one book in Denmark.
5VNXD TIL about Douglas Bader, a British WWII ace who lost both legs before the war. He flew with prosthetics, scored 22 kills, and became one of Britain’s top pilots. After being captured, the RAF air-dropped him a new prosthetic leg behind enemy lines.
yV04M TIL that since 1938, a Finnish government agency has given parents a "maternity package" containing many useful items for babies for every newborn child
epj1L TIL that "Let all brave Prussians follow me!" was Field Marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin last words, immediately after he was struck and killed by a cannonball
Lk9L9 TIL: Nearly a third of homicides go unsolved in the US each year