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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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w9Qo TIL in 2004, doctors treating a virginal Japanese woman discovered an ovarian tumor that had grown into the form of a doll and had a brain, eye, spinal nerve, ear, teeth, thyroid gland, bone, bone marrow, gut, trachea, and blood vessels.
1a5GP TIL Trident chewing gum contains pork
nW8GB TIL that British General Lord Cornwallis, the man who lost at Yorktown thus losing the US Revolution ended his career as Governor-General of India in July, 1805 and died there 3 months later. He is interred in Gauspur in Ghazipur in a neo-classical tomb.
j8rj TIL that during the WWII, Khanpasha Nuradilov a Chechen native, was credited with over 920 confirmed kills, taking 12 prisoners, and capturing nine machine guns.
N7Z6Q TIL there’s only one hospital in the US that displays its prices in an easy to read and search through format.