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TIL that doing the Nazi salute in Germany is punishable by up to six months in prison.

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Avd TIL there is a Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams who missed almost five full baseball seasons fighting as a fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean War and still managed to hit 521 home runs.
wLkBY TIL that the drug cocktail that allows AIDs patients to survive came along just months after Freddie Mercury died.
A5Ma TIL Jose Cuervo is still produced on land granted to the family by the King of Spain. It was the first business to receive a license to produce tequila and is the oldest family run business in Mexico.
856K TIL: that the human stomach has more nerve endings than the spinal cord, giving a bit more meaning to gut feeling.
R7njQ TIL the Jabba The Hutt puppet was 2,000 lbs, took 3 months to build, 3 men to operate and cost half a million dollars to construct.