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TIL that a multilingual Marine officer earned medals from the U.S., U.K., France, and Morocco for his WWII heroism.

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W799X Today I learned that looking at the rocks lower left of the famous portrait depicting Napoléon's crossing of the Alps by Jacques-Louis David, it is seen that the names of Hannibal and Charlemagne, who had previously crossed the Alps, were engraved.
d80gd TIL that deaf infants, and those born to deaf parents, “babble” using their hands during the language-acquisition period.
oR5Lr TIL in the 1960s, Swiss rivers were filthy and unsafe. A 1963 typhoid outbreak in Zermatt killed 3 and sickened over 450. A 1967 initiative led to a 1971 law on wastewater treatment. By 2005, 97% had sewage access.
jjxv TIL Disney is developing a stand-alone film featuring Boba Fett, which would take place either between A New Hope and Empire or between Empire and Jedi.
d0xK TIL Frank Hayes was a jockey who, in 1923, suffered a fatal heart attack in the midst of a race at Belmont Park in New York. His horse finished and won the race with his lifeless body still atop, making him the first, and thus far, only, jockey to win a race after death