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TIL that at age 21, Grimes built a boat to live in while floating down the Mississippi River

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X0Myr TIL of people of Jewish decent that served in the German Army in WW2. They ranged from Generals who were declared to be Aryans, waffen SS soldiers who hid the fact knowing their fellow soldiers would probably kill them to ordinary soldiers basically hiding from being sent to concentration camps.
aJB9 TIL… Youth who volunteer just one hour or more a week are 50% less likely to abuse alcohol, cigarettes, become pregnant, or engage other destructive behavior.
VMBKk TIL Hawaiian t-shirts are good camo
5YPpn TIL that Spanish military outpost Penon de Velez de la Gomera on the Moroccan coastline forms the shortest international border in the entire world, spanning only 74 meters. It was also once an island until a 1934 storm left the sandy isthmus that serves as the border today.
LkMmr TIL about an Israeli Mossad agent by the name Eli Cohen who infiltrated the government of Syria and convinced them to plant trees which later was used by Israeli as targeting markers in the 6 day war.