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TIL That Smedley Butler was one of the most decorated Marines with 2 Medals of Honor. He served 33 years & became an anti war advocate. He wrote "War is a Racket" about war profiteering. He said "the best he[Al Capone] could do was to operate his racket in 3 districts. I operated on 3 continents."

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VAYp TIL Sylvester Stallone’s crooked mouth is due to paralysis of the lower left side of his mouth, from birth complications. Furthermore, actor Milo Ventimiglia suffers from the same problem and subsequently starred as Stallone’s on screen son in Rocky Balboa.
6EbnJ TIL Canada made an actual flying saucer during the cold war
vx98 TIL barcode scanners scan the white bars not the black ones
5VYA9 TIL about a mountain range in the Balkans called the Accursed Mountains, named for their wild and inhospitable nature.
VpOp TIL that Detroit had 2,123 instances of violent crime per 100,000 residents in 2013 and remains America’s most dangerous city