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TIL James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) was in the Canadian military and on D-Day killed two snipers and was himself shot 6 times … by friendly fire.

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mxBdP TIL Haiku are supposed to focus on seasons and incorporate a Kireji (cutting word). What the Western world thinks are Haiku are actually Senryuu, everyday poems that are just 5-7-5 syllables.
NXdrQ TIL Joseph Stalin was covered in scars from the smallpox that he’d survived at the age of seven and had official photos portray his face as smooth and fresh with well maintained hair by heavily editing and retouching photos.
Nl68 TIL a twenty-year-old obsessed with a movie about a heist stole $215,000 from the bank he worked for and disappeared. His whereabouts are still unknown.
16OO TIL that, contrary to depictions in science fiction, the human body can briefly survive in outer space unprotected, and that the human skin doubles in size, more resembling a body builder than a balloon.
7rOBO TIL an Austrian man won the right to right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as "religious headgear". He claimed that he was a “Pastafarian”, and the strainer was a requirement of his religion.