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TIL of Vivienne Hole, the only member of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) killed during WWII. ENSA provided entertainment to British armed forces personnel. Hole was killed when her driver accidentally drove into a minefield.

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dlk7 TIL A Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old.
j6wja TIL despite the PS3 being out for four months by then, God of War 2 (2007) was released only for the PS2. Studio Santa Monica's justification to the Sony heads for doing this were that they wouldn't have to play catch-up to be PS3 compatible, and a PS2 release was accessible to far more people.
kO6JB TIL of Rosalynn McGinnis; She was kidnapped at the age of 12 by her stepfather and smuggled into Mexico, where she had 9 children fathered by her kidnapper. At the age of 32, 20 years after her kidnapping, her neighbors helped her and 8 of her children escape their captor and return to the U.S.
R5578 TIL limes are only green because they are unripe. They are sent that way to stores because they’re easier to ship. Unlike oranges and lemons, limes don’t ripen once picked, so they stay green. Ripe limes are yellow.
v19AK TIL the original "Echidna" was not an egg-laying mammal, but a legendary half-woman half-snake who was the mother of several Greek monsters, including the Hydra, Sphinx, Chimera, and Cerberus.