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TIL: Human corpses keep moving for a year after death.

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4kebR TIL 18 aircraft from the US Army Air Forces' 100th Bombardment Group were sent on an Allied bombing raid on Münster, Germany in 1943. 5 were forced to turn back before reaching Münster & of the 13 that carried on, only 1 plane returned to base. The group became known as the "Bloody Hundredth."
gr8dW TIL: In WW2 school children were used to create nearly 9,000 paper mache type balloons that were later used to complete bombing raids. The children were not told the purpose of their paper mache projects.
pxX8 TIL that on 23 August 1989, around 2 million people joined hands in a human chain that stretched 600 kilometres across the 3 Baltic countries, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. They did this to protest their countries forced inclusion in the Soviet Union.
OGVRa TIL The McFlurry spoon was designed to attach to the ice cream mixing machine, as the McFlurry is supposed to be served mixed.
5YnP TIL that the reason the Toronto Maple Leafs are not called the Maple “Leaves” is that the name was chosen in honour of the Maple Leaf Regiment from World War I. As the regiment is a proper noun, its plural is Maple Leafs (not Maple Leaves).