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TIL Dexter Holland of The Offspring, was the high school valedictorian, received his Master’s in Molecular Biology, and took a 10-day solo flight around the world.

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VMJap TIL In 1943, the British took a civilian's corpse, filled his lungs with water, dressed him in a military uniform, gave him fake intelligence letters, and dropped him off the coast of Spain -- all in an elaborate ruse to draw the Germans away from Sicily. It worked.
N77KE TIL that Shakespeare's wife's name was Anne Hathaway
xnOw TIL that Thomas Day, a man who attempted to train women to be good wives, was killed when he was thrown from a horse that he refused to train because he felt training them was cruel.
WkKQX TIL The Douamont Ossuary has the bones of over 100,000 unidentified soldiers who died at Verdun. The total combined casualties of the battle amounted to 750,000 with 300,000 being KIA
v1d64 TIL: William Talman was the first Hollywood actor to to film an anti-smoking public service announcement. He had lung cancer when he filmed the commercial. The short film began with the words: "Before I die, I want to do what I can to leave a world free of cancer for my six children"