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TIL only one of the 40,000 American soldiers who deserted during World War II was punished by execution

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4X8pN TIL Agatha Christie’s novel “Elephants Can Remember” reveals distinct signs of Alzheimer’s onset, e.g., 20% fewer words or ⅕ of her vocabulary lost; 6 times more use of nonspecific words such as “thing”, and a sharp drop in “idea density”. That novel’s last line is “Maybe it’s OK not to remember.”.
m1WrO TIL that professional wrestler "Kane" is the current Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee
kOgOm TIL of Otto Skorenzy, the 6' 4" 250lb German solider listed by MI5 as The Most Dangerous Man in Europe. Part of the Nazi Werewolf operations and responsible for a raid on a mountaintop castle, he allegedly went on to work for Mossad.
wVYJ TIL that there is an alleged “chapstick conspiracy” and a movement to raise public awareness about the dangers of lib balm addiction
x6ll7 TIL that clinical trials for injectable male birth control have started in Melbourne, Australia.