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TIL that Unreal Engine 3 was used for the backgrounds in LazyTown

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GA1M5 TIL that 6 year old Seryozha Aleshkov was the youngest soldier of WW2. The war orphaned him and then a group of soldiers took him in as a brother. He then went on to find German spies hiding in a haystack and was awarded for his intelligence. He died in 1990, aged 54. More information below.
epj1L TIL that "Let all brave Prussians follow me!" was Field Marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin last words, immediately after he was struck and killed by a cannonball
M7eg0 TIL there was a french guy named Tarrare who was known for having a insatiable hunger, so much so that he would eat live cats, fight dogs over hospital trash, and even be able to eat his own weight worth of food. He also was able to swallow whole snakes and eels without chewing.
gM5yy TIL that the reason that that one guy made that solo treadmill video in their basement gym might had had something to with the music video of "OK Go - Here It Goes Again"... Cause I saw the original music video for the first time today...
9Ylx7 TIL blue raspberry flavor is based on a real fruit called Whitebark Raspberry, which bears blue/black fruit.