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TIL the phrase “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” was originally meant to describe an absurdly impossible action. The phrase is an adynation, a figure of speech in the form of hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths as to insinuate a complete impossibility.

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N7NXN TIL Marine Cpl. John H. Pruitt was posthumously awarded both the Army and Navy Medal of Honor for capturing two machine guns and 40 Germans on October 3, 1918. He was killed the next day—his 22nd birthday—by an artillery shell.
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