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oRDDY TIL There is only one Woman to have received the Medal of Honor, Mary Edwards Walker. It was rescinded in 1917 because she was a civilian but reinstated in 1977.
6OE8 TIL the United States Air Force Space Command commissioned Bill Nye to make a video for the Air Force called “Hollywood vs. EMP” so that the people who must deal with real EMP would not be confused by fiction.
7rMR7 TIL: Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
yQyya TIL around 1980 a man named Denis Hope have sold plots of land on the moon to notable people like Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Barbara Walters and even former president George H.W Bush, he claims the UN outer space treaty doesn't negate an individual claiming ownership for the moon.
d8xaj TIL The 1877 novel Black Beauty was a watershed for the recognition of animal cruelty, especially horses, as an important issue. It spurred reforms in both the US and England, leading to the abolishment of the “bearing rein”- a cruel Victorian device that severely damaged the necks of horses.