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TIL During WW2 a Polish woman risked her life to conceal a Jewish man and his wife because the man once let her take some goods from his shop when she didn’t have enough money to pay him.

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LOjd TIL there is a film adaptation of a former McDonald’s teenage employee who was held against her will, strip searched, sexually assaulted, spanked, and physically humiliated all because of a prank call by a guy claiming he was a cop. Everyone thought it was all legitimate.
J1LAl TIL about Ken McElroy an American criminal and convicted attempted murderer who resided in Skidmore, Missouri, United States. He was known as "the town bully", and his unsolved killing became the focus of international attention. Brad Wesley, in the 1989 action movie Road House, is based on him.
Egm5W TIL the average American will consume nearly 3,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in their lifetime; if those sandwiches were stacked on top of each other, they’d form a delicious, precarious tower taller than the Statue of Liberty
dDxjd TIL that the Seine, Rhine, Thames, Elbe, Meuse, Amstel and Sheldt Rivers were all tributaries of a now lost mega river called the Channel River that flowed through the now sunken Doggerland to the Bay of Biscay, eighteen thousand years ago.
ep0xb TIL that in 1932, Edith Roosevelt, the Former First Lady and widow of Theodore Roosevelt, campaigned for Herbert Hoover's re-election to emphasize that the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was not her son.