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TIL that Theodore Roosevelt is the only United States President to have received the Medal of Honor, with it being awarded to him posthumously in 2001 after having been nominated during the Spanish American War.

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kmAB TIL Qatar citizens get free electricity, water, and phone lines
JYpQV TIL after the Vietnam war, Vietnamese farmers reused external fuel tanks dropped from US aircraft to create makeshift canoes and riverboats.
nyXr TIL in some of the earliest displays of Stunt Flying, a pilot named Eugène Lefebvre would fly directly at terrified spectators, turning away only at the last second. He is also the first person to die while piloting a powered aircraft.
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