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TIL that American and German soldiers teamed up against the Nazis in a battle for a medieval castle

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rr84 TIL of a millionaire who announced he would bury his Bentley for his afterlife. After lots of negative reaction, he revealed the publicity stunt about organ donations. “People bury things that are much more valuable then cars and nobody seems to care”.
AD0a4 TIL that Dr. Thomas Midgely, inventor of both leaded-gasoline and chlorofluorocarbon with the best of intentions, devised an ingenious system of pulleys and strings to pull his polio-stricken body out of bed, which tangled around his neck, and killed him.
gMjn4 TIL multiboxing in gaming can be traced back to as far as April 1992, with the TinTin++, a MUD client made up of 700 lines of C code and which allowed playing and botting multiple characters. The Merc (MUD) developers discussed a programmatic way to detect multiboxing on Usenet in 1993.
5VynR TIL that the most famous poem by Zhang Zongchang--a 'warrior poet' who was named Time's 'Basest Warlord'--reads "You tell me to do this, he tells me to do that. You're all bastards. Go fuck your mother."
jyM TIL there is a name for the scent of rain