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TIL every year Warsaw stands still to commemorate the Warsaw Uprising

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gMAQA TIL Michael J. Anderson, the actor who played The Man from Another Place in Twin Peaks, worked as a computer technician on the ground support system for NASA’s space shuttle prior to his acting career.
KWmR TIL that James Doohan , “Scotty” on Star Trek , was shot by 6 bullets storming Juno beach on D-Day : four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger
Z80mD TIL It's theorised that our sense of smell may use quantum tunneling to measure the vibrational states of molecules and there is growing evidence to support this theory.
4O1o TIL On the LEGO model of the Back to the Future time machine, the destination date is set to Jan. 28, 1958, the patent date for the 1st LEGO brick.
AN7Ad TIL: Crab Rangoons aren't related to Chinese cuisine, and were instead invented in an American Tiki bar by someone trying to give a new appatizer a suitably Asian sounding name, and then re-appropriated by Chinese-American restaurateurs as a staple appetizer.