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TIL: That there is internet via Amateur Radio!
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TIL Daniel Inouye was an American soldier in WWII who got shot in the stomach while engaging 3 machine gun nests, then had his right hand blown off from a rifle grenade, and finally proceeded to pry out the grenade from his amputated hand and throw it in the nest.
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TIL when Lawrence Anthony, known as "The Elephant Whisperer", passed away. A herd of elephants arrived at his house in South Africa to mourn him. Although the elephants were not alerted to the event, they travelled to his house and stood around for two days, and then dispersed.
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TIL King Tut had a Dagger Made from a Meteorite
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TIL there is 1 school remaining in the U.S. that employs shock therapy treatment on students. The FDA attempted to ban the use of their in-house built electro-shock devices which was overturned by the D.C. Court of Appeals in 2021.
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TIL almost all of the vanilla produced in today’s world is pollinated by hand utilizing a technique developed by an enslaved boy back in 1841.