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TIL in 2017, Zac Efron nearly experienced a mental breakdown trying to achieve the 'perfect' body for Baywatch. In 2019, he admitted he never wants to be in that good of shape again, calling it an "unrealistic" ideal for men.

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kOmRW TIL of Donald Caskie, "the Tartan Pimpernel", a Church of Scotland minister working in Paris who helped 500 Allied servicemen escape occupied France during World War II
EgQm0 TIL in World War II several U.S railroad companies sponsored military “railway battalions” to help with the war effort. Company bosses became military officers and 1000’s of American railroad employees joined the effort throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
YG6Z TIL In 2004 a 13yo girl was walking to school but was shot and wounded at a distance by IDF soldiers. As she cowered, wounded behind a rock an Israeli captain went up to her and emptied 17 bullets from his rifle into her at point blank range. The captain was exonerated and later promoted to a Major.
kYdE TIL, 50 years ago the US sent half a billion inch-long copper needles in space. They’re still floating around the earth.
mxJ6R TIL in 1942 the BBC issued an appeal for postcards and photographs of the coast of Europe from Norway to the Pyrenees. It was actually an intelligence gathering exercise, they were sent to the War Office to help determine a suitable location (Normandy) for the eventual D-Day landings of 1944.