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TIL Titanic Officer, Charles Lightoller later assisted evacuation efforts in Dunkirk during WWII. The character, Dawson, in the Christopher Nolan film, was inspired by him.

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VMkXm TIL of William Rankin, a fighter pilot who survived ejecting into a thunderstorm. He encountered very low temperature, frostbite, massive wind and lightning, severe decompression, and nearly drowned from breathing in rain water. Overall, he was in the cloud for more than 40 minutes.
EEw0 TIL that in Sweden volunteers can sign up to receive a text message if someone is having a cardiac arrest 500 m from them so that they can start performing CPR before the paramedics arrive. There are currently 9600 volunteers.
rgWM TIL in 1599, Andrew Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, was killed and his head cut off. The head was then painted by a Greek artist and sewn back onto his body, before his burial.
5VeOp TIL that the [former] most remote tree in the world (the only structure in 250 miles), was hit and killed by a drunk driver in 1973. Now, the world's [newest] loneliest tree lives on Campbell Island, NZ, where it has lived in isolation for over 100 years.
VA80 TIL the terms “fed up” “haggard” and “wrapped around your little finger” along with many others, came from medieval falconry