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TIL that a secret Nazi weather station sat undiscovered in Canada for decades.

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X7JQ TIL an undercover Israeli agent armed only with a .22 stopped a group of terrorist attacking an aircraft with grenades and AK47, After securing the event he was arrested and put to trial in Switzerland
Yp1vG TIL about 6 Tongan teenage boys who were shipwrecked and lived on the uninhabited island 'Ata for 18 months (1965-1966). The boys had set up a small commune, with a vegetable garden, hollowed-out tree trunks to collect water, a gym with odd weights, a badminton court, and a permanent fire.
78J8r TIL King Henry VIII of England hired four men who regularly checked his faeces, monitored his bowel movements and wiped his bottom. They were appropriately called ‘Grooms of the King’s Stool’ and all of them were eventually knighted.
9ZZQ TIL there is a pastor in South Korea named Jong-rak who created a baby box that he attached to the side of his house to collect mentally handicapped or unwanted babies to prevent them from being abandoned on the side of the road and left to die.
v4xK TIL before 1939 in Ireland, if a Guinness brewer wished to marry a Catholic, his resignation was requested.