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TIL of Frank Durrant, a WW2 British Commando who, while shot 16 times and in Command of a small wooden boat - Took on a German Destroyer so ferociously the German captain recommended to the British Army he was awarded the Victoria Cross. He was.

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4XLko TIL that Japan's largest Yakuza group, the Yamaguchi-gumi, holds an annual Halloween party for neighborhood children in Kobe. "Not only were the decorations great and the gift bags full of tasty stuff, there were two big lines for cotton candy. And the gangsters were super nice."
GYXrJ TIL Scot-free originally meant tax-free, scot is the Middle English word for tax. It later took on its current meaning of escaping consequences.
X0ZD6 TIL in 1931 a 15 year old went to a hospital in Chicago and was mistakenly given a transfusion of blood from a parrot because the physician misheard the doctor’s instruction to “use her parents’ blood.” The hospital staff frantically searched for a parrot and extracted its blood for injection
9o9r TIL That obsidian knives are so sharp they cut on a cellular level. Due to this, when used in the medical field, incisions made with the blade heal faster with less scarring.
rNNMw TIL that ancient Britons come mainly from Spain