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TIL as Lt. Dan Inouye was about to toss a grenade at a German machine gun nest, a Nazi shot his arm off with an RPG. Undaunted, Inouye pulled the live grenade from his severed hand, tossed it, put his gun in his left hand, then wiped out three machine gun nests and killed 25 Nazis on his own.

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gr697 TIL that the band Len was given $100k to film the music video for “Steal My Sunshine.” They flew two dozen friends to Florida and broke their hotel elevator loading all their alcohol into it. Then they just filmed themselves relaxing and riding around in the afternoons when the hangovers wore off.
XEKJj TIL That the Father of General Douglas MacArthur, Arthur MacArthur Jr. was also military commander of the Philippines in 1900. Similarly he would also go on to be relieved of duty by a (future) president, Howard Taft in 1901.
GYg11 TIL that for the last 30 years the same Commodore Amiga Computer has been controlling the HVAC systems of the 19 schools in the Grand Rapids school district. It has been running day and night since
worP6 TIL that in the 19th Century, Rudolf Lindt, of the famous Lindt chocolate family, accidentally invented the crucial step of "conching" chocolate – rolling the warm cocoa mass to make it smooth and reduce its acidity – by leaving a cocoa mass mixer running overnight.
VMWEm TIL that Sparta's reputation as a military machine is largely myth, that they lived an ordinary Greek lifestyle, and they should really be known for responsible and stable government.