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TIL that a Pizza Hut manager during the Joplin tornado saved many lives by herding customers into a walk in freezer and bungee cording his arm to the freezer door before being sucked into the tornado and killed.

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rVyo TIL of Gerald Fit Mason, who was caught and convicted in 2003 for the 1957 murder of two police officers. He was identified by the the scar left by a bullet fired by one of his dying victims.
ne0lb TIL about Operation Mincemeat, a British deception plot to fool the Nazis into thinking that the Allies were going to invade Greece instead of Italy by planting deceptive information on a corpse on the Spanish coast with the hopes that Spain would pass it on to German Intelligence.
VMDdB TIL that due to an intense shift to wartime production, America only produced 139 civilian automobiles throughout the Second World War.
mxZdR TIL that male kangaroos can become extremely muscular in order to improve the chance of attracting female kangaroos.
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