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TIL: In 1947 a former GI Ernie Kreiling and his wife Jean toured the French WW2 battlefields -a tour of his days of combat.

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P1Jje TIL of English lawyer Frederic Weatherly (1848–1929), who inadvertently created the coxless fours in rowing by jumping out of the boat at the start of the race to save weight. Oh, yeah, and he also wrote about 3,000 song lyrics, including "Danny Boy".
jZKE TIL the shortest commercial flight is between two islands in Scotland and can take as little as 47 seconds.
AD5w7 TIL that orangutans are very gentle and solitary animals. Males live 90% of their long lifespans alone, only spending a few days with a female to mate before going back into seclusion.
GYLEg TIL of Francis E. Dec, one of the first widely known “targeted individuals”. A former lawyer, he spent the last 25 years of his life writing and distributing rants about a “mad deadly worldwide communist gangster computer god” that controlled people’s minds and planned to take over the world.
pYale TIL You are supposed to rub in spray sunscreen.