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TIL a Cleveland Browns fan requested six Cleveland Browns pallbearers at his funeral so “the Browns [could] let him down one last time”

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lonJ7 TIL that during WWII Audie Murphy earned every US Army combat award for valor, and several French and Belgian awards for heroism. He earned the Medal of Honor at 19 for holding off a company of German soldiers for an hour, then leading a successful counter attack while out of ammo and wounded.
e05nE TIL in Chinese/East Asian culture, the Tiger - not the Lion- is considered the King of all Animals. This is so because it is the biggest land-predator in East Asia, and- more importantly- the markings on its forehead resemble the Chinese character for King/Monarch: "王."
R7mLa TIL PowerPoint is Turing Complete
8aLK TIL that Japanese people can digest seaweed while for the rest of us it passes right through. (They have an unique symbiosis with a bacteria)
5Yaw8 TIL that Milton Hershey, the founder of Hershey Chocolate Co., was one of several historically significant people who almost boarded to Titanic.