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TIL the first person to be awarded two congressional medals of honor was the younger brother of General Custer who died alongside his more famous older brother. He was awarded the medals for heroic actions during the civil war in less than a week.

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e0Jk5 TIL The Exoplanet HD 189733 has the nickname "Rains of Terror" due to it's atmosphere raining glass and supersonic windspeeds.
LQP5V TIL there are four special hats among artifacts left by the late bronze age (ca. 1350 - 600BC) Urnfield culture of Europe. The hats are made from thin-sheet gold rolled into tall cones. The hats are covered in complex patterns and symbols; these are thought to represent celestial calendars.
yQbnM TIL that apiarists, geneticists, and bee breeding engineers at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada have developed a new bee breed that is supposed to have beneficial traits, including strength and mite resistance, to try and cure colony collapse disorder and save the bees. #savethebees
5YA4k TIL that when Michael Jackson granted Weird Al Yankovic permission to do "Fat" (a parody of "Bad"), Jackson allowed him to use the same set built for his own "Badder" video from the Moonwalker film. Yankovic said that Jackson's support helped to gain approval from other artists he wanted to parody.
nWg9P TIL The Association for Women with Large Feet was a British organization founded in 1949 to lobby manufacturers to produce more stylish women's footwear in larger sizes. Later, they expanded their focus to lobbying for more clothing options for tall women. Members had to be at least 5' 8" (173 cm).