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TIL about Joe Ronnie Hooper who was one of the most decorated soldiers of Vietnam and whose Medal of Honor citation reads like an action movie

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8jw4 TIL less than 5% of the world lives in the U.S., but Americans consume about 37% of cocaine in the world.
MVo8 TIL Two identical twins separated at birth; one grew up a Nazi and the other a Jew.
lo197 TIL Alduos Huxley was injected with LSD on his deathbed and essentially tripped into death.
v1jYD TIL the German folklore of Frau Perchta, a witch who would roam the German countryside for 12 days leading up to Christmas, leaving silver coins to good children and cut open the bellies and replace the organs of bad children with straw and pebbles.
wL9AJ TIL the Casio F-91W is the most commonly used watch for bomb making