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TIL that during the Nazi occupation of France, the Nazis didn’t remove the American flag flying over the Marquis de Lafayette’s grave

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wkJ1 TIL: The money required to eradicate hunger for everyone in the world has been estimated at 30 billion per year…about as much as the world spends on the military every eight days.
Lka0 TIL that in March 2012, a U.S. soldier (SPC Dennis Weichel) saved an Afghani boy by jumping in front of a moving truck to push the boy out of the way. He was struck by the truck instead and died of his injuries.
AD757 TIL the Pot-in-pot refrigerator uses a porous outer clay pot (lined with wet sand) containing an inner pot within which food is placed. The evaporation of the outer liquid draws heat from the inner pot, and requires only a flow of relatively dry air and a source of water, but no electricity.
neOM9 TIL Billie Holiday was arrested and jailed five months for prostitution at age 14.
M0a0 TIL Rick James had alprazolam, diazepam, bupropion, citalopram, hydrocodone, digoxin, chlorpheniramine, methamphetamine and cocaine in his blood at the time of his autopsy.