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TIL while fighting in WWII, Max Spencer Adler was shot out of the sky and imprisoned by the Nazi’s. After surviving and returning home, he would go on to create the store we now know as Spencer’s (Gifts).

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M747m TIL the U.S. Navy had a warship called the USS Gyatt. Commissioned in 1945, the ship was named after Edward Earl Gyatt, a Marine Corps private who died in battle in 1942.
wLMM8 TIL an Algerian Muslim saved over 500 Jews and Resistance fighters during WWII by providing false papers stating they were Muslim.
AD9do TIL In 2011 Oprah found out she has a sister she never knew existed and now takes care of her financially because Oprah was so impressed that her sister spent 3 years trying to contact Oprah with no luck and never once tried to sell the story to the press. (You have to see the video I linked)
4kvYN Today I learned that Saint Valentine (as the one Valentine's Day is named after) is also considered a patron saint of beekeepers.
RJZ8 TIL Americans’ religious views are closer to people in developing nations than to the publics of developed nations