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TIL about José Salvador Alvarenga – A fisherman who survived 438 days (14 months) adrift at sea by eating raw fish, birds, and drinking rainwater.

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VB0 TIL in the 1931 movie, Frankenstein, the line “Now I know what it feels like to be God!” following “It’s alive! It’s alive!” was censored by audio of a clap of thunder because it was considered blasphemous and was only just restored in 1999, nearly 70 years later.
V6ZB TIL of a Jewish man who escaped Germany in 1938 at age 13 and returned in 1945 as a U.S. Military Intelligence officer charged with hunting escaped Nazis and proving that Hitler was dead. In the process he tracked down a dozen SS officers and discovered Hitler’s Last Will and Testament.
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