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TIL Mel Brooks was a mine clearer in WW2 “I was a combat engineer. Isn’t that ridiculous? The two things I hate most in this world are combat and engineering.”

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e0VML TIL the man who campaigned to legalise the potato in France then promoted it by keeping potatoes under armed guard to give the impression they were valuable and instructing the guards to accept any and all bribes by civilians wanting to steal them
nge7 TIL There is no month where there isn’t a chance of frost in Minnesota.
0wga5 TIL when Lance Armstrong was asked in an interview what he would do if he could go back in time and return to 1995 (the year he started doping), he said that he would "probably do it again."
KOOW4 TIL that the official definition of 1 second is based on a quantum mechanical phenomenon, namely "the duration of 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a Caesium 133 atom's outermost electron"
xVgxD TIL Jackie Robinson had a brother named Mack who ran with Jessie Owens