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TIL Florida man Arnold Abbott had been feeding street people at a beach weekly from 1991 till he died age 94 in 2019; he refused to stop even when a FL law limiting public food sharing came out in 2014. FLPD showed up when Abbot was passing out food; an officer demanded: "Drop that plate right now."

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KWmR TIL that James Doohan , “Scotty” on Star Trek , was shot by 6 bullets storming Juno beach on D-Day : four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger
j6rWv TIL about pigeon vests, made by the bra company Maidenform during WWII, for soldiers to carry pigeons while they jumped out of airplanes.
94QQ TIL that Charles IX of Sweden was actually Charles III- he chose his numeral after reading a fictitious history of Sweden. Nevertheless, all Charleses since have been bumped forward 6 spots.
6EADm TIL that in the middle ages Christian priests would recite "hoc est corpus", meaning "this is the body", during mass when turning bread into the body of Christ. Since nobody spoke or understood Latin, this chant was garbled into "hocus pocus", which we still use when performing magic tricks today.
Gpp5 TIL Japan’s Unit 731, during WWII infected prisoners with tiger blood, anthrax and other diseases/viruses, amputated limbs without anesthesia and tested weapons on live prisoners. The research notes were given to the US in exchange for immunity post war…