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TIL of the Strauss–Howe generational theory. According to this theory, every 80 years is a crucial “fourth turning” of generations in American history. The “fourth turning” is necessarily marked by a crisis that has destroyed the social order and created a new one, after which a new cycle commences.

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XELXj TIL Army vet Gregory Holeman needed a ride to the hospital but didn't know if Veterans Affairs covered an ambulance not pre-authorized. He asked his sister to call a social worker but she misdialed & Jimmy John's answered; JJ delivery driver Zack Hillmer (a U.S. Navy vet) drove him to the hospital.
Oo7Zg TIL In 1900s, Minnie M. Cox, the first African-American woman postmaster in the United States, was forced to resign due to threats of physical harm from local white citizens. President Theodore Roosevelt, feeling Cox had been wronged, closed the post office and continued to pay her salary.
7rMEZ TIL "Sin Eaters" were people who consumed food off the dead in order to take on the sins of a deceased person.
NX0De TIl about RM Colonel Mark Nicholas Grey who in 1993 helped save thousands of life’s in Croatia by exceeding his authority and opening a spill way gate at Peruća Dam after the Serbs detonated explosives on it. His actions lowered water levels by several meters and the dam did not fail
BrrOx "Glenn Gould was a complicated man. He didn't like to practice; instead, he'd prepare for concerts mentally, running the piece over and over, playing with imaginary fingers. When he was a little baby, it was said that instead of crying, he would hum. He had perfect pitch and could read music before he could read words."