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TIL Germans and Americans fought side by side during WWII.

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a8xNo TIL stars don't move during space travel as in movies. As Apollo astronauts looked out the window while speeding toward the moon, it looked like they were motionless because the stars didn't move.
X8DE TIL that in Star Wars legends, Jar Jar Binks was given a father, named George R Binks, who was so ashamed of his son that he attempted suicide. In order to talk him down, his wife told him to think of his son. He then pulled the trigger
R50m7 TIL: That weird European helmet with a spike coming out of the top isn't supposed to be a horn; they're so you can wear an animal's tail hair. (You'd tie a plume of your horse's hair together & stab it onto the spike.)
VMv18 TIL The vibrator was invented before the vacuum cleaner (1883)
m1Xoy TIL Lobster Chew With Their Stomach