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TIL Desmond Doss is the first and only conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor. During the Battle of Okinawa, he aided and saved the lives of 75 wounded infantrymen. He did not carry a weapon or kill enemy soldiers.

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60w8 TIL Robert Maxwell, a noncombatant in WWII, was awarded the Medal of Honor for holding off a platoon armed with automatic weapons with 3 other soldiers using just .45 pistols and throwing himself on a grenade, absorbing the full blast. He is one of 7 surviving medalists, age 94.
0kyL [TIL] Current incumbent U.S. House of Representatives member, Alcee Hastings, formerly served as a U.S. District Judge and was successfully impeached on 17 counts of corruption and removed from office.
neM19 TIL George Washington was the first American mule breeder. However, his first donkey had a low libido. After much study, Washington discovered what got the donkey off: female donkeys, two at time. If the donkey had a clear view of them together he would successfully perform with female horses
KON6w TIL that Romania is the country with the highest rate of home ownership in he world: more than 96% of the population owns a house or an apartment. At the beginning of the 1990s, after the fall of the Communist party, the state sold each tenant the house he or she occupied at a very low cost.
ZpPMp TIL that the Pope of the Coptic [Egyptian] Orthodox Church is chosen from the final 3 candidates by a blindfolded child drawing a name from a chalice