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TIL that John Lennon wrote I am the Walrus just to mess with people trying to find meaning in his songs

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VgY4 TIL of Roza Shanina, a female Soviet sniper who fought in World War 2 and got 54 confirmed hits. Allied newspapers called her, “the unseen terror of East Prussia.”
XEv6j TIL that the famed Allied spy Nancy Wake cycled 500 km (310 mi) in three days. She and her radio operator was ambushed and was forced to flee, leaving the radio, so she cycled to the nearest resistance radio and back in three days.
4XNQo TIL Pablo Escobar, despite being a wanted crime lord, took a photo with his son in front of the White House.
1vKX TIL: In 1995 While captive in a Navy program, a beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech.
69Vo7 TIL about the Dictionnaire Infernal, a book on demonology first published in 1818. Initially a work of fiction, author Collin de Plancy later converted to Roman Catholicism and amended the book: the final edition aligns with Catholic theology and affirms the existence of the demons.