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TIL that Bob Crane (who played Col. Robert Hogan on Hogans Heroes 1965-1971) played the drums in the theme song for the show.

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jNQGp TIL Learie Constantine, a Trinidadian Cricketer, Lawyer and Politician, who served as Trinidad's High Commissioner to the UK and was the UK's first Black Peer, successfully sued a Hotel Company in London in 1943, which had earlier denied him and his family accommodations based on their race
N77pE TIL the US built a secret base under the icecap of Greenland to host 600 nuclear missiles. It was powered by a mobile nuclear reactor, and was original planned to have 4,000km of tunnels.
9Y4Wm TIL about 'Wolfskinder' - orphaned German children during WW2 who fled the then East Prussia to Lithuania. They survived hunger, cold and loss of identity. It was estimated that upto 25000 kids were roaming the woods and swamps of these regions after 1945.
9vrQ TIL that 80% of the Tor Project’s budget comes from the US Government
rRjXW TIL that axolotls are basically real life pokemon that can morph into salamanders when exposed to excessive levels of iodine