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TIL that tiddlywinks is a real game with national and international associations and there have been multiple World Singles championships.

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6Eebl TIL of Albert Battel and Max Liedtke, German officers who threatened to shoot a group of SS attempting to execute Jews in Poland. They successfully rescued 100 Jews, and are among the few Wehrmacht members to be recognised as Righteous Among the Nations
W7g1L TIL about Martha Mansfield, a silent film star who died at 24 in 1923 on the set of 'The Warrens of Virginia.' Her Civil War-era costume caught fire after someone threw a used match into the car she was sitting in. The match-thrower has never been identified.
R57ww TIL There is only one female sniper in the US Army and the public doesn't know her name
oRlgE TIL that the word "robot" comes from the Czech word "robota," meaning forced labor or drudgery, and was first used in the play "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek in 1920.
E1awp TIL about John Bulkeley, who evacuated MacArthur from the Philippines, recruited JFK into the Navy, and tested security on the base he commanded by dressing up as a ninja and sneaking around at night