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TIL the most decorated service member in US Military history, Audie Murphy (1925-1971), and the most decorated Airman in Air Force history, Duane Hackney (1947-1993), both died before the age of 47.

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b9kNa TIL that by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, France was conscripting men shorter than five feet (1.5 m) tall.
kE7E TIL that 27 million Soviet citizens died in WWII. By comparison, 1.3 million Americans have died as a result of war since 1775.
nGvo TIL Tom Delonge of Blink-182 is a firm believer in extraterrestrial life and once had his phone tapped by the government for coming into possession of 36 hours of Congressional testimonial footage of NASA’s secret space program.
looOV TIL that gravity has speed, and the speed of gravity appears to be the same as the speed of light
vvvD TIL When an airplane is at a precise angle between the sun and a bank of clouds, a circular rainbow known as a “Pilot’s Halo” forms around its shadow on the cloud bank.