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1Pgr TIL in WWI, Walter Leigh Rayfield, a captain in the Canadian army, rushed a trench alone and killed 2 men, took 10 prisoner, made 30 surrender and then carried a wounded soldier under machine gun fire.
EgD7d TIL that in 1950s America, Kent Micronite Cigarettes were manufactured with blue asbestos doped filters...as a "Safety Feature"!
pe44 TIL Anthony Hopkins frightened people during screenings of Silence of the Lambs by tapping them on the shoulder during the scary parts.
jlxv TIL that there is a runway in Somaliland, a country that is not even recognised internationally, which is so long NASA rented it for 40 million dollars a year just in case the space shuttle could not make it back to America.
XElBP TIL The idea of using red poppies to commemorate fallen soldiers first appeared in the poem “In Flanders Field”, written in 1915 by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae (Memorial Day 2021)