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TIL Danny Trejo has 27 movie slated for release in 2015.

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R7054 TIL about Witold Pilecki, a polish intelligence agent in WW2 who volunteered to join a resistance operation to infiltrate a Nazi Death Camp and gather intelligence about the Nazi's crimes and inform Western Allies. Then, after two and a half years, he chose to escape. The camp was Auschwitz.
5V1LB TIL the highest wind speeds ever recorded were from the Tornado that struck Oklahoma on May 3rd, 1999. Measurements put the speed at about 301 ± 20 miles per hour.
pYGZQ TIL Tanzanians like albinos a little too much.... Tanzanian children with albinism are hunted for their body parts, as they believe the bones hold a kind of magic that will bring success and fortune
5JpB TIL that a third string catcher, Moe Berg, toured Japan with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1934 while working as a US spy. Berg spoke 12 languages and eventually spied on the Nazis during WWII. When presented the report to the president, Roosevelt responded “Give my regards to the catcher.”
N7rMJ TIL: In 1926, Tesla accurately predicted smartphones. "A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket."