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TIL East German Boy Scouts Learned To Drive Tanks on 1/3rd Scale 2 Boy Mini Tanks

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9YbaM TIL:In 2005, 51% of graduating students at BYU were already married
R7Ow7 TIL An Ossuary in Hallstatt, Austria holds over 1,000 skulls, 610 of them delicately hand painted. Due to limited space, after 15 years of burial, remains were relocated to St. Micheal's church and graves were reused. People began decorating their ancestors' skulls to make them less anonymous.
EE60 TIL that the German army has over a thousand troops in the US, with a headquarters outside Washington DC
1vB4 TIL Near the end of WWII, after viewing films of Nazi concentration camps, many German prisoners in the U.S. formally burned their uniforms and volunteered to fight in the war against Japan.
7GDO TIL Sperm were first observed in 1677, and were described as “Animalcules”, each containing a miniature yet fully formed human. This came into question when it was pointed out that meant each sperm itself carried sperm.