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TIL Nutella was created during WWII in Italy because of a shortahage of chocolate

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wKe6 TIL after refusing to abandon a dying comrade numerous times , Warrant Officer Kevin Wheatley pulled the pins from two grenades and calmly awaited the Viet Cong, holding one grenade in each hand. An action leading to his death and him being posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
l708r TIL that while cleaning up from the World Trade Centers falling, crews found a shipwreck 7ft below the foundation that dated back to 1773
kBje TIL pubic lice are going extinct because their natural habitats are being destroyed
WkRX9 TIL: Benjamin Franklin is credited with one of the first placebo-controlled studies to debunk animal magnetism (1784)
9wZrB TIL that when U.S. General George S. Patton died in late 1945, the French government offered to bury him beside Napoleon in Paris out of gratitude for his role in the liberation of France and western Europe.