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Pwjw TIL in 1991 Maurice Krafft, a french Volcanologist, was filmed saying “I am never afraid because I have seen so many eruptions in 23 years that even if I die tomorrow, I don’t care”. He was killed during an eruption the very next day alongside his wife on Mt. Unzen in Japan.
p8GEb TIL General Patton was removed from his post in Italy during WW2 for slapping shell-shocked soldiers in the face. He was transferred to England to lead a fake regiment of inflatable tanks, which served as a distraction to convince the Germans that Normandy would not be the spot of Allied invasion.
5E18 TIL due to the historically long bond between dogs and humans, dogs have evolved to understand human laughter.
E1xMW TIL in 1933 Stalin criminalized male homosexuality but left lesbianism untouched
VM1LQ TIL that in 1859 the most powerful recorded solar storm shocked telegraph operators through their machines and set their papers on fire.