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TIL translated to English, the Ukraine’s national anthem is “Ukraine Has Not Yet Died”

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gMab9 TIL a Jewish woman saved her own life and her sister's life in a German concentration camp by playing Chopin so beautifully that the commanding officer declared "She shall live."
w1bM TIL John Malkovich named his film company after a Thai man (storied to be a convicted murderer) who was his driver during the filming of The Killing Fields. “Mr. Mudd” would run of bicyclists and old women off the road, and say: ‘Sometime Mr. Mudd kill. Sometime Mr. Mudd not kill.’
AVAa TIL: Wu-Tang Clan Rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard (R.I.P.) saved the life of a 4 year old girl who had gotten trapped under a car after being ran-over. ODB ran to the scene of the accident and organized a group of about a dozen onlookers to lift the car off of the little girl.
L4ap TIL during WWII, Some British Spitfires were painted pink to conceal them when flying at dusk or dawn.
Wk8GA TIL of Arvīds Blūmentāls, a rumored prototype for Crocodile Dundee and Latvian Baron who deserted the Waffen-SS for the Foreign Legion before relocating to Australia. He hunted 10,000 crocodiles with his bare hands and lived in a hillside dugout so bizarre it was used in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.