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TIL Alaska has more coastline than the rest of the United States combined

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OodWR TIL about Flordelis, a Brazilian pastor and congresswoman. She married one of her 51 adopted children in 1998 and then in 2020 was charged with orchestrating his murder, at the hands of two more of her adopted children
JOLB TIL that a high school football coach got half the fans of his own team to cheer for the other team, because the other team was from a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility and didn’t have any fans of their own.
e0kmL TIL: The first death in WWII was Franciszek Honiok, a German of Polish descent. The Gestapo murdered him and left his body at a radio station that the Gestapo, dressed in Polish uniforms, attacked. The body helped "prove" Polish aggression to justify the Nazi's invasion of Poland the next day.
lobQ5 TIL: Ted Roosevelt Jr, fought and was wounded in World War 1, then after a career in politics, rejoined the same Army unit at the beginning of World War 2. As a 56 year old General, he landed with the first waves at Utah Beach, later earning him a Medal of Honor for his contributions
8eb1K TIL that in France, unwed women over 25 were called “Catherinettes” and wore garish yellow and green hats for good luck in finding husbands on November 25