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TIL of Jack Van Der Geest- a Dutch resistance fighter who was one of eight people to escape from Buchenwald. Pretending to be dead, at 80 lbs. he hid in a pile of bodies for 11 hours before killing a Nazi, stealing his uniform and a motorcycle to escape.

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awOdb TIL there is an ethnic group called the Karen people or Karens. About 7 million of them live in Myanmar, and about 8500 in Minnesota.
KOk0Q TIL: SWISS MADE means the watch only has to have 60% swiss components.
j6MQv TIL in 1968 the state of Florida began to build a gigantic airport for supersonic jets in the Florida Everglades but was stopped by an environmental coalition after a federal report found the project would “inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem” and the Everglades
mp5x TIL there is a section visible to those who climb Mount Everest titled “Rainbow Valley”, so named for the many colorful parkas of other (dead) climbers that dot the landscape. [Note: graphic PICS may be NSFW]
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