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TIL in 1945 after a compulsory viewing of a film on the holocaust, 1000 German POWs at Camp Butner burned their German uniforms in disgust

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VMnEQ TIL about the meanings of the famous quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, “your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries”. The hamster likened a mother to a fast breading rodent and elderberry was a common kind of wine, implying the father was a drunk.
JEkj TIL in the days after the 9/11 attacks the German warship Lutjens(D185) passed by the US destroyer Winston S. Churchill with the US flag flying at half-mast and the sailors Manning-the-Rails, an honor typically reserved for heads of state.
GYjN1 TIL The name Nimrod used to mean a skillful hunter…until bugs bunny changed it.
pD9e TIL one of Jupiter’s moon’s, Io, is the driest thing and most geologically active object in the Solar System
9Zjr TIL A Teenage Cancer Patient Changed The Ending Of ‘Breaking Bad’.