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TIL There is a guy who bought a Boeing 727-200 and uses it as his house.

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m0MR TIL the last British solider to be killed in WWI died an hour and a half before the end of the war, he had fought from the very beginning and died almost exactly where his first battle was four years earlier.
4kgeb TIL that Portland cement's name is derived from its similarity to Portland stone, a type of building stone quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England
aRay TIL That a 1956 report on the CIA’s covert activities found that the CIA was influencing foreign elections as part of their Cold War operations. The report also concluded that the CIA was exerting “almost unilateral” control on US foreign policy.
LkNlZ TIL that as a child, the "seven nation army" was how Jack White would mispronounce the Salvation Army.
pj5e TIL: A guy volunteered to get imprisoned at Auschwitz in order to gather the first intelligence report on the camp. He then organized a resistance movement and informed the Western Allies of Nazi atrocities. He then escaped from the camp and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. Whoa.