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TIL that the commander of the first “Flamethrower unit” used in WW1 was named “Bernhard” and that before the war he was a firefighter.

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LOwm TIL that in 2002 Iraqi vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan proposed that Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush should fight a duel to settle their differences.
06QA TIL that the Roman fertility deity, Priapus, was also a guardian god who threatened to violate trespassers with his large penis
yBgX TIL that the Seventh-day Adventist church teaches that the Anti-Christ will be the Pope, and the Catholic Church will cause the apocalypse.
1eXV TIL that a woman fell to her death BASE jumping from Yosemite’s El Capitan as part of a protest intended to prove the safety of BASE jumping. Her husband filmed the fall from the meadow below.
wL0GM Today I learned that Al Capone Ran a Soup Kitchen During the Great Depression