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TIL US Army Chaplain Charles Liteky is the only Medal of Honor recipient to have given his award back to the Government, he also left the priesthood, married a nun, and became a fervent social justice activist.

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Wkp19 TIL the woman who first proposed the theory that Shakespeare wasn't the real author, didn't do any research for her book and was eventually sent to an insane asylum
4XJjg TIL that not all identical twins share a placenta (in humans). About 30% of identicals have separate placentas; conversely, 100% of fraternal twins have their own.
5VLrr TIL an analysis found that 43 of the 69 emperors (62%) of the unified Roman Empire, from Augustus (d. 14 CE) to Theodosius (d. 395 CE), suffered a violent death. Either by assassination (the most common mode of death), suicide, or during combat with a foreign enemy of Rome.
vPmk4 TIL playing Tetris after a traumatic event can help reduce PTSD symptoms
l7LR5 TIL in 1912, a man found the skull of a prehistoric "missing link" in the human evolutionary chain. In 1953, it was discovered that the skull was that of a medieval human with an orangutan jaw and fossilized chimpanzee teeth. "The Piltdown Man" become the most famous paleoanthropological hoax ever.