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TIL Russell Williams is a former Canadian colonel who was convicted of two murders

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EPXo TIL Australia is the only country to have served along side the United States in every military conflict since WW2.
6rQw TIL of 14-year-old Marcos Ugarte. When his neighbor’s home went up in flames, he climbed a ladder held by his father, entered the burning home and saved an 8-year-old’s life who was trapped inside. He said, “I can’t say I really consider myself a hero. I think anyone would have done what I did.”
19WX Today I learned that helping disadvantaged children does more to reduce homicide rates than being tough on crime.
YpM7v Today I learned Willie Nelson has played the same guitar,“Trigger” for 50 years. It has been signed by friends, family, lawyers, and Johnny Cash. It was his last remaining possession twice. Willie has played it at over 10,000 shows and he gets it repaired every year at the same shop in Austin,TX
kGdW TIL of the Backfire Effect, in which wrongly held beliefs of people get stronger in the light of contradictory facts and evidence, not the other way around as typically expected.