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TIL “Admiral” Dewey Phillips Traveled down the Mississippi River on a mattress

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XJxj TIL in 1940 the Polish Underground Army purposefully had a soldier detained and sent to Auschwitz in order to collect intelligence.
X0eKR TIL: to clear land for logging in Canada, forestry workers, often students and junior rangers, spent weeks at a time as human markers holding red, helium-filled balloons on fishing lines while low-flying planes sprayed Agent Orange on the brush and the boys below. "We were saturated in chemicals"
OlkL TIL People on Parliament computers tried to view porn 250,000 times last year.
LmPV TIL that there is a place in outback Australia where New Year’s Eve occurs thrice every year due to the intersection of 3 timezones.
ne4JW TIL that in 2010, a guy placed a $200 million stock exchange order that would pay off if the markets dropped. Automated trading programs overreacted, briefly crashing the markets by 10%. He then bought a bunch of stock cheap, profiting $40 million. He was identified and arrested in 2015.