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TIL In 1985 the Russians made a movie called The Detached Mission which was a response to Rambo: First Blood Part II.

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DZOg TIL Maj. Iván Castro is the only active duty blind officer serving in the US Army Special Forces. Castro lost his eyesight in 2006 in Iraq when a mortar round severely wounded him. After being told he’d never see again, he learned to train and serve without sight. He was promoted Captain in 2008.
0J4M TIL in Yakutsk, Russia, the coldest city on earth, residents often keep their cars running all day to ensure they can get home and they are advised not to wear glasses in fear that they will freeze to the face and rip off skin.
PYoYO TIL in 1969 LIFE magazine published a cover story called “The Faces Of The American Dead In Vietnam: One Week’s Toll.” Page after page of images of young men, 242 of them, killed in seven days of fighting the war in Vietnam.
grnXA TIL that Brooklyn New York has a bigger Jewish population than Jerusalem. 1 out of every 4 people in Brooklyn is Jewish and it has been called "the most Jewish spot on Earth".
N7O58 TIL that the will of Who bassist John Entwistle, who died in 2002 after taking cocaine with a stripper in a Las Vegas hotel, divided his estate between his mother, son and girlfriend. A month after receiving an inheritance of ca £1million, Lisa Pritchett-Johnson died of a suspected drug overdose.