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TIL about "laptop thigh."

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YpPLd TIL of Anders Lassen a maverick Danish member of the British Special Forces in WW2. He once filed a 5 word battle report “Landed. Killed Germans. Fucked off”. He also drove a stolen jeep through the hotel he was staying at, into the elevator, and parked in his room. He was awarded the Victoria Cross
6ApZ TIL that Italian doctors have saved the life of a 16-month-old boy by implanting the world’s smallest artificial heart to keep the infant alive until a donor was found for a transplant
M74xW TIL In 1864 during the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia, a Union and Confederate soldier got into a fistfight to settle their disagreement on who was the other's prisoner. The brawl made both armies pause the entire battle just so they could watch them fight.
Q0bE TIL : The Movie Wargames (1983) coined the term ‘Firewall’ , ’“war dialing”, and “War Driving”
jNKjN TIL that Peter Mahew portrayed the character Chewbacca from the Star Wars films for nearly 40 years, from 1977 to 2015. Chewbacca was nearly 200 years old in the films and was inspired by George Lucas' dog.