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TIL that Fred Astaire took up skateboarding in his late seventies, and has a life membership in the National Skateboard Society

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NnlM TIL one twin from a premature birth was declared clinically dead, came back to life after laying on his mother’s chest for two hours
W7yBo TIL that in the D-Day landings of 1944, only about 14 percent of the force were infantry, 6 percent were tank crews, and the rest were "rear area functions," - Logistics, medical staff, etc.
d8vJr TIL there exists 2 pornographic movies from 1993 based on the Super Mario video game series called „Super Hornio Brothers” that Nintendo bought rights to, in order to halt their distribution.
xBA1 TIL that there IS such a thing as transparent aluminum and it is a viable replacement for bulletproof glass.
g4O9 TIL in 1945 to mitigate the impacts of German V2 rockets, British Counterintelligence released false reports of rockets overshooting London, subsequently causing the Germans to readjust and fall short of London for the remainder of the war. [26:00 min mark]