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TIL Major General Ray Smith, USMC (Ret) had multiple kills in Vietnam with an entrenching tool (small shovel).

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AB TIL that the same guy plays Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, and has done since 1969. He’s still puppeteering both at 78.
WkYJL TIL That ice is predicted to change into a metal at pressures above 4.8 TPa (or ~48 million times the Earth’s atmospheric surface pressure). At even more extreme pressures, it could melt into a quantum liquid.
Y7MBx TIL The co-founder of the CIAs venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, was originally a video game designer.
5YWlR TIL had it not been for the Norman Conquest of 1066, the English we speak today would have been much different and more restrictive. The merging of Old English and Norman French led to Modern English being sort of hybrid of the two, giving another shade of meaning to words such as "swine" vs "pork".
R7nw1 TIL In 2000 The Guinness Book of World Records cited Michael Jackson as the most philanthropic pop star in history. He gave over $300 million dollars to charity in his life, and visited hospitals and orphanages at every stop of his tours handing out gifts and making donations.