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TIL George H.W. Bush came very close to being eaten by cannibals in WW2

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nxnd TIL Each year Forbes releases a list of the 15 richest people in the realm of fiction called the Forbes Fictional 15, Current #1: Smaug, the gold hoarding dragon from The Hobbit, with an estimated wealth of $62 Billion
w1mJ TIL That a man named Sir Nicholas Winton organised the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps before World War II. Him at a ceremony surrounded by those he saved.[VIDEO]
N5BQ TIL the Western African gorilla’s scientific name is Gorilla gorilla, including a lowland subspecies named Gorilla gorilla gorilla
GAPL4 TIL 5 children died in australia when a bouncy castle went airborne from gusts of wind
VMkO4 TIL The canaries sent down into mines to detect gas weren't sacrificed but placed in a device to revive them when they succumbed to the dangerous gases.