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TIL that big band composer/musician Glenn Miller went missing in action in 1944 and no trace of him has ever been found

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OGnB7 TIL that while the game "BINGO" is centuries old, the WORD "bingo" has no real known origin and is not found before the 1920s.
kOdNg TIL Willem Kolff created the first dialysis machine in the Netherlands during WWII. Lacking materials, he used sausage casings, tin cans, a washing machine, and salt water. He also saved more than 800 people from the Nazis by hiding them in his hospital. And he later invented the artificial heart.
9YDwp TIL that back in school, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen would throw Bill Gates in dumpsters so that Gates could go rummaging around in the rubbish looking for computer print-outs that would provide clues to early operating systems
gM0ZX TIL that John Parr and George Ellison, respectively the first and last British military casualties of World War I, are coincidentally buried in the St-Symphorien cemetery in Belgium, with their graves facing each other.
GYPO1 TIL In WWII British tanks, one man's job was to handle the radio, hull machine gun, and brewing tea whenever there was an opportunity.