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j6dlp TIL about Yang Kyoungjong, a Korean soldier during WW2 that was conscripted to fight for Japan, was then captured and forced to fight by the Russians, and then again captured and forced to fight for the Germans at Normandy. He was then finally captured by the Allies and sent to the US.
Oo1Xa TIL that George B. McClellan, the mayor of New York in 1904, was to symbolically start the first train at City Hall station and the hand it over to an engineer. However, he enjoyed himself so much that he refused to stop controlling the train until he reached 103rd street.
w4lJ TIL: Theo Kojak from the show Kojak sucked on lollipops because the actor who played him (Telly Savalas) was trying to quit smoking throughout the first season’s episodes.
EgMyx TIL about Ättestupa, cliffs in Sweden where legend says elderly people in ancient Norse times would leap to their deaths in a ritual of senicide
0w0AL TIL about the "Oozlefinch", a featherless bird that flies backward at supersonic speed carrying Nike missiles and was the unofficial mascot of the U.S. Army Coastal Artillery.