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TIL Star Trek’s Scotty, James Doohan, was a CDN soldier who landed on Juno Beach, killed two snipers and cleared a minefield before even getting off the beachhead.

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E1jmo TIL that "ringworm" is a fungal infection and no actual worms are involved
W75gX TIL In 1962 commodities broker Tino De Angelis, bilked 51 banks out of over $180 million ($1.85 billion today) in what became known as the salad oil scandal. Part of his scheme involved mostly filling his storage tanks with water so that there was only a little oil on top in case of inspection.
xPEo TIL the Diomede Islands in the Bering Straight are 4km apart but have a time difference of 23 hours. For this reason, they are sometimes referred to as “Tomorrow Island” and “Yesterday Isle”.
O6Aa TIL The Election Commission of India stipulates that no person should have to travel more than 2 kms to cast a vote. So in the state of Gujarat, a temple caretaker who lives in an ancient deserted temple gets his own special voting booth, with just one voter.
69la8 TIL that, for the 20th anniversary rerelease of Massive Attack’s classic album Mezzanine, they became the first band to release their album by encoding it into DNA.