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TIL of Jonny Kim. His accomplishments include being a former Navy Seal with 100 combat missions, a Doctorate of Medicine from Harvard, and will soon be an astronaut for NASA

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awENA TIL that Calico Cats are almost always female and that Orange Cats are usually male
Q19e TIL “The Dutch Reach” [SFW] using your far-hand to reach for a car door handle. It forces you to swivel, automatically looking out at mirror & easily back for bikes & traffic decreasing the chances of “dooring” a cyclist.
vOK8 TIL: J.K. Rowling lost her billionaire status because she donated so much of her money to charity.
6ExDX TIL Winston Churchill was in New York on Black Friday, the crash of 1929, having invested (and lost) the royalties for a book he was writing. He wrote, "I expected to see pandemonium, but the spectacle that met my eyes was one of surprising calm and orderliness."
8aZAL TIL that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were just 2 of dozens of Japanese cities subjected to massive incendiary attacks. Firestorms leveled almost 100 square miles in Japan's three largest cities (Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya) alone. Hundreds of thousands were killed and millions forced to evacuate.