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TIL in World War 2, Audie Murphy’s best friend was killed by German soldiers who pretended to surrender. Murphy then single-handedly stormed a machine-gun-fortified house while taking heavy fire to attack his friend’s killers. He ended up wounding two, killing six, and taking eleven prisoners.

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am9J TIL that Democratic Senator Harry Reid of Nevada once choked out a man who offered him $12,000 to illegally approve his new casino games, while yelling “You son of a bitch, you tried to bribe me!”
r5lx TIL Gin descends from a juniper liquor first distilled in Belgium or Holland. During the Thirty Years’ War, England’s army saw Dutch soldiers fortifying themselves for battle by drinking genever. They brought this so-called “Dutch courage” back home.
GANl1 TIL on October 2 1990, a hijacked Boeing 737 sideswiped a Boeing 707 and then collided into a Boeing 757 at China’s former Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. It resulted in 128 people being killed and the Captain of the 707 getting injured.
BExe TIL NYPD ex-cop Adrian Schoolcraft secretly recorded corrupt activities for 17 months in 2008, leading to a huge scandal and 4 separate investigations into NYPD. He recorded illegal arrests, superiors giving illegal orders, multiple rape reports getting downgraded to trespassing and more.
0wJDv TIL a woman was buried alive. Her husband heard her screaming from inside the coffin and tried to break her free. When they finally got her out, she was dead again but her fingers were bruised and the glass inside the coffin smashed.