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TIL That in the United States people weigh the least shortly before Thanksgiving

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E1B0V TIL about Gen Peter Hains who served in the Civil War, the Spanish American war and WWI as a military engineer. He also designed the layout of the Panama Canal
XADR TIL Pirates used eye patches to quickly adjust their eyes from above to below deck, having one eye trained in bright light, and the other in dim light.
4XYnb TIL the Comanche code word for Adolf Hitler (used by the Code Talkers during WWII) was “crazy white man.”
8e1XK TIL when the Guinness World Records stopped monitoring the record for the longest time to stay awake in 1997, the record holder at the time was Robert McDonald who stayed awake for 18 days 21 hours and 40 minutes in 1986.
RdJ7 TIL- To avoid making Yoda appear toy like due to his small stature, the makeup designers based his face off Albert Einsteins to give a sense of wisdom and respectability.