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TIL the entire United States Marine Corps won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject for the 1944 film "With the Marines at Tarawa"

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PYg9n TIL acetaminophen (aka Tylenol) is clinically effective at treating hurt feelings as well as physical pain.
4XraJ TIL that Calvin and Hobbes' personalities match those with the 17th century philosophers of the same name.
7xJM TIL During the first Gulf War the United States used bulldozers in an assault on entrenched Iraqi soldiers, burying between 80-250 people alive.
ep4mJ TIL Joseph Kerwin was the first American physician to go to space and had the first chance to study space medicine. Ready on Skylab with a minor surgery kit and drugs, a dislocated finger was the most serious ailment any of the three astronauts experienced when he was there
5jk9 TIL $1 billion dollars (12% of GDP) was stolen from 3 Moldovan banks in 2014, a main culprit was elected Mayor in 2015.