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TIL - During WW1 the UK and Canada had battalions comprised entirely of men between 4'-10" and 5'-3" tall known as the Bantam Battalions.

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kJG77 TIL about Genghis Khan’s Baljuna Covenant which was a cross-tribal alliance that brought together a very diverse group of people and leaders—even from enemy factions—and is considered a truly heterogeneous masterpiece of diplomacy and warfare.
4XYJR Fifty years ago today, air stewardess Vesna Vulovic plunged more than 33,000 feet from an exploding airliner, landed in a Czechoslovak mountain range, and survived. Subsequently, it was determined that Vulovic’s fall was the highest that a human has ever sustained without a parachute.
7pwO TIL Abe Lincoln is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame, having lost only once in approximately 300 matches
N9wJ TIL the same guy invented Pizza Hut’s Stuffed Crust Pizza, McDonald’s McGriddles and Dollar Menu, and the Smashburger restaurant chain
XBpP TIL all candidates in Iranian elections must have a master’s degree.