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TIL that at 9:55 pm every night many soldiers on both sides of WWII in Europe tuned their radios to the same station (the German-controlled Radio Belgrade) to listen to a nightly broadcast of the wistful love song "Lili Marleen", which had been virtually unknown before the war

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87oL TIL the first and the last British soldiers to die in WWI are coincidentally buried only 15 feet apart. In the 4 year period between their deaths, nearly a million other British/Commonwealth troops died.
Bg6pr TIL that there is a single group of indigenous people, the Yupik, who lived in both the Americas and Eurasia (Russia) prior to European discovery of the new world.
8aWn8 TIL that when Germany invaded Belgium in World War I, King Albert I took personal command of the Belgian Army. He led his army for 4 years, fighting alongside his troops, while his wife, Queen Elisabeth, worked as a nurse at the front. His 12 year-old son, the Crown Prince, also fought in the ranks
b6bm7 TIL about Partibel paternity, the idea that a child can have multiple fathers. Taken both symbolically and literally, scientists argue it reduced sexual conflict, increased the odds of a mother and childs survival within a tribe, and facilitated comradarie between men.
8akwX TIL a principal once punished a mischievous student by making him read the U.S. Constitution in a basement until he could recite it. The student, Thurgood Marshall, would go on to become the first black associate Justice of the Supreme Court