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TIL that in 2013, an Oregon man on meth fought off 15 cops while masturbating

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N74WJ TIL in 1842, the British had an army of 16,000 men retreating from Kabul, Afghanistan. Only one man survived after losing some of his skull, protected by a magazine stored in his hat. He arrived in Jalalabad and when asked where the army was, he stated "I am the army".
D15yj TIL In 2005, a psychologist and an economist taught a group of monkeys the concept of money - Soon, the monkeys began to engage in prostitution.
k0L5 TIL Joaquin Phoenix, was born Joaquin Bottom. After his parents took his siblings and him out of the cult “the children of god” they renamed themselves Phoenix to symbolize a new beginning
lo9l7 TIL about the WW2 battle between the destroyer USS Borie and U-405, in which the two ships collided and became locked together. The crews had to resort to fighting at close range, with small arms and anything they could get their hands on. One German sailor was even killed by a thrown sheath knife.
4ngo TIL that a pigeon skeleton found in a chimney was carrying a WW2 code which GCHQ were unable to decrypt. Code is included in text.