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gMX4y TIL during the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya an ex SAS member and former Irish soldier joined forces to rescue victims of the shooting, organised police to attempt a counter attack and evaded gunfire while rescuing people still trapped in the mall
b95b0 TIL that the song whistled throughout The Great Escape has lyrics attributed to an Anglo-Irish propagandist named Toby O'Brien. "Hitler has only got one ball, Göring has two but very small, Himmler is rather sim'lar, But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all"
69Y7J TIL Ugandan pygmies were evicted from Bwindi impenetrable rain forests so that mountain gorillas could stay there peacefully. People ate fruits and root food in the forests but now they are being enjoyed by mountain gorillas as the Batwa starve
Wk4EA TIL about the concept of Shuhari, a Japanese philosophy on learning. The student first follows the rules (Shu), seeks to break the rules (Ha), then becomes the rules (Ri) as they have achieved mastery and the rules are no longer necessary.
W714Y TIL that the CEO of McLaren F1 racing, Zak Brown, appeared on wheel of fortune as a teenager, won $3,050 and spent the winnings to fund his racing career