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TIL of Stanley Bender who WALKED towards enemy machine gun nests and killed their occupants after standing on a knocked out tank for 2 minutes to scout out their positions

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8aWV TIL A mathematician called Paul Erdős used amphetamines to improve his work. A friend bet him $500 he couldn’t quit the amphetamines he for a month. Erdős won and then promptly resumed taking them after complaining it had delayed his mathematics work by a month.
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