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TIL: The bodies of two women were discovered over a year after the eruption of Mount St. Helens, but they were both actually victims of murder prior to the eruption whose bodies were hidden to the debris and ash.

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GAlG5 TIL Allied tanks were mired in the hedgerows of the French countryside. An American Sgt. came up with the idea to deconstruct Nazi anti-tank "hedgehogs" and re-weld them into crude brush cutters, mounted to the front of Sherman tanks. It was hugely successful and allowed Allied forces to break out.
nejLY TIL that the remote Ascension Island in the Atlantic was known as a barren, desert island when it was discovered in the 1700s, but today boasts one of the world's largest artificial forests, planned by Charles Darwin and botanist Joseph Hooker in order to make the island livable.
JpgV TIL: Hitler had a favorable opinion of Islam. He viewed Islam as “a religion that believed in spreading the faith by the sword and in subjugating all nations to that faith. Such a creed was perfectly suited to the German temperament.”
69WBm TIL Michael Jackson's "Billy Jean" was a real stalker who sent Jackson multiple letters claiming he was the father of one of her twins, culminating in sending him a handgun and an invitation to a murder-suicide. It was also based on multiple women who harassed his brothers while in the Jackson 5.
yVOZl TIL in 2008 a man woke up unable to breathe so he performed a self-tracheotomy with a steak knife. It was the second time he'd done it.