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TIL Poland’s Boy Scouting association was transformed into an armed resistance force during WWII and fought in the Warsaw Uprising, assassinated SS officials, and liberated a concentration camp

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grKmX TIL whales sometimes fart. The bubbles that whale flatulence generates are about the size of a watermelon. The unpleasant odor of whale farts has been described by observers as "a combination of herring breath and the funk of rotten salad." Seals are also known to have particularly noisy farts.
7kp TIL that many ‘Ghost Trains’ run on the British Rail Network. These trains - often unadvertised - run extremely rarely, at obscure times, through bizarre routes, purely to keep the line officially open whilst discouraging passenger use. Ghost train hunters roam the country searching for them!
xVlgb TIL that the composer of the Broadway musical RENT died hours before the first performance of the show. He would go on to win three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, but never got to see the show performed for an audience.
E1nZV TIL that for Fatboy Slim to clear all the audio samples in his 1998 hit single The Rockafeller Skank (aka Funk Soul Brother), he had to give away 100% of the track's royalties
BlNe TIL: There is a small island in Shrewsbury, MA that doesn’t belong to anyone in particular. One local man is crusading to name it Busta Rhymes Island. When asked why, he said it was because the island had “rope-swinging, blueberries, and … stuff Busta would enjoy”.