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TIL some children during the Industrial Revolution were so poor their schools had to lend them shoes - and stamp them with a warning not to pawn them for money for food

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8ambX TIL that in WWII there was a Nazi sailor who flushed his toilet incorrectly, causing his submarine to flood with seawater. The sub was forced to surface in view of the British who then attacked, resulting in the vessel's destruction, 4 Nazi deaths, and 46 Nazis captured
NX5eJ TIL that during the 1936 summer Olympics in Berlin there was a gliding competition as a demonstration sport
J7eQ TIL There’s a kind of turtle with a green punk hairstyle
LkkAZ The best thing: You don’t need to own a bike.
mxKZR TIL that the state vegetable of Oklahoma is watermelon. A watermelon is a fruit.