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TIL about Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl, who among other things, sailed from the west coast of Africa to Barbados in a papyrus reed boat.

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VMRp8 TIL of Salomon Klass, a Finnish Jewish captain was nominated for the German Iron Cross who stopped a Soviet counterattack 7 times during the Continuation War between Finland, Germany and the USSR. He was among three Finnish Jews to get nominated for the award, they all refused it.
W70jY TIL that the inventor of the rotary, Felix Wankel, was an ardent anti-Semite, Nazi party member and even did two years as an SS officer
W7aA TIL that soy sauce activates the neurons of a dead squid causing it to “dance”, and this is a Japanese dish called odori-don.
bOaE TIL That if you see a cockroach in your home, in broad daylight, that means that you have a major infestation. This is most likely true because cockroaches hate the light, and if one ventures out during the day it’s because there are so many it was forced into the light.
YpZM7 TIL Two penniless brothers living in a cave inherited $6.6 Billion from a long lost Grandmother.