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TIL of twenty-seven year old Navy Veteran Telemachus Orfanos, a survivor of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting that was killed a year later at the 2018 Thousand Oakes shooting in California.

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1aQBW TIL that during the occupation of Denmark in World War II, 7200 Jews, aided by local resistance fighters, escaped Nazi internment. Of the Jewish community living there, only 500 were captured, and only 51 did not survive.
E1PNd TIL The "Tower of the Winds" (in Athens) is considered to be the first ever meteorological station. It features eight sundials, a water clock and a wind vane
0dRG1 TIL that similar to snakes and mongeese, owls and crows are the most bitter rivals in the animal kingdom, and the rivalry is so ingrained in the minds of the two birds that crows who have been raised in captivity and have never seen an owl before will go berserk the first time they see one somewhere
b6ZJj TIL Oreos are a knock-off of Hydrox cookies, which came out four years earlier (in 1908)
gMR87 TIL The Salvation Army is run by evangelicals