› added 3 years ago

121

TIL of Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German diplomat who during WW2 warned Danish Jews of their impending deportation and organised their rescue to Sweden, resulting in 95% of Jewish Danes fleeing successfully.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

PAGV TIL that Nixon said “I am not a crook” at Disney World
DQJlj TIL of William Mullens, who led the only intact unit of the 51st Division to escape France in June 1940. He led about 160 men to the beach, under heavy fire for 6 miles, and on the way captured a village with only revolvers. The Germans assumed it was a strong counterattack and fled the village.
eGDb TIL There is a bioplastic bag made out of Algae and Shrimp shells that you can drink and will not pollute the Earth
9Y1BB TIL 2017 was the first year the Doomsday Clock changed by seconds and not strictly minutes
Brp9L TIL about proffesional French "flatulist" Joseph Pujol, aka Le Pétomane, who discovered as a young man that he could suck air into his anus and fart on command. He was the highest earning French entertainer of his time.