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TIL a rugby player ran a 90km marathon in his rugby boots and later organized a Test match in a WWII POW camp

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8ap18 TIL that in WW2 a polish doctor helped 8000 jews by creating a fake typhus epidemic. Not risking an epidemic, the Germans quarantined the area instead of sending them to concentration camps.
5Y7Or TIL that in 2010, a Canadian man rescued a newborn baby from a dumpster, only to find out he was the father.
wPnJ TIL that the word “basketcase” is WWI slang for a soldier who had lost all 4 limbs and needed to be carried in a basket.
LQAm TIL in the UK, children over the age of 5 can legally drink alcohol, so long as they’re in either their house or a friend’s.
kJJ0g TIL Only 8 percent of tariffs on aluminum for cans went to the government. The rest was pocketed by the aluminum manufacturers.