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TIL that James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) was shot six times while fighting for the Canadians during D-Day

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BrxPk TIL that the King of Prussia had a personal army of 3000 tall men and admitted, "The most beautiful girl or woman in the world would be a matter of indifference to me, but tall soldiers—they are my weakness"
BXnW TIL that a wanted pimp had such a sophisticated pattern lock on his android phone that the FBI was unable to crack it. They had to serve Google with a warrant to try and help them.
gM9LL TIL "Mayhem" is felony -- defined as disabling or disfiguring someone, and in 1936 an American heiress was charged with mayhem for ordering doctors to sterilize her 20-year-old daughter as punishment for promiscuity and to steal her inheritance.
xVNR0 TIL that Bikini atoll, the place where Bikini Bottom was named after, was declared a nuclear wasteland after the US dropped 23 bombs in the 1950s. However scientists have found thriving life in the center of it all, with evidence that life restarted a mere 10 years after the bombings.
6Eyd8 TIL that Mars has the tallest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons is roughly 22km tall and has a diameter of 600km