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VME14 TIL that Polish intelligence officer Witold Pilecki volunteered for a resistance operation to be imprisoned in Auschwitz in order to gather intelligence about the camp. He organized a resistance movement in the camp, sent information to the Allies about what was happening there, and escaped in 1943.
rPJw TIL: a 14 year old boy needed 13L of blood during emergency surgery decided that when he was 18 he was going to start giving blood. Doctors discovered a rare antibody in his blood. He has saved over 2.4 million unborn babies over 5 decades.
Y7MgW TIL There's 2 Washingtons. The state and the district. Funnily enough Fallout is what taught me this.
57g9 TIL that many small spiders, insects, viruses and bacteria float 1000’s of feet above the ground. They are guided by the atmosphere, and are the terrestrial analogue to ocean plankton.
pYGrb TIL Hawai'ian men grew their hair long because during the times of old, there was a specific “kapu”, or law, set for hula dancers. Used in only the most sacred of traditions, hair was believed to have held an extensive amount of “mana” or divine power.