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TIL the story about ‘Unsinkable Sam’ - a German WW2 ship cat who served on three different war ships. All three sank during the war and Sam survived…

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RAo8 TIL Alan Alda is the only actor to appear in all 251 episodes of the long-running series MAS*H. He commuted from Los Angeles to his home in New Jersey, where his wife and daughters lived, every weekend for the 11-year-run of the show, because he didn’t know how long the show would last.
9YrQD TIL that in order 'to satisfy every European's musical taste', Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the EU anthem, has been officially adapted into other genres such as jazz, hip-hop, trance, techno, and Romani folk. All of those versions are free to listen to on the Council of Europe's page.
Z8wGa TIL that Hitler got the idea to sterilize the physically and mentally handicap from the success of the United States program in the 1930's, the US stopped due to not wanting to be associated with that image.
e0bGk TIL that the Australian Prime Minister who drowned at sea has a swimming centre named after him.
Lk4kP TIL of the German general Ferdinand Schörner, who at the end of World War II abandoned his army group to fly to Austria and personally surrender to the Americans, all to avoid capture by the Soviets. The Americans handed him to the Soviets.