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TIL Legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie suffered and died from a hereditary disease, Huntingtons Disease that his mother also died from. His oldest two daughters died from it and son Arlo Guthrie refused to be tested but hasn't shown symptoms.

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VBK5p TIL that Sergeant Bill was a goat who achieved hero status during World War I as a Canadian war hero. Bill was able to hear and warn soldiers of incoming shell explosions, pushing 3 soldiers into a trench within seconds of an incoming shell.
Q4QL TIL of an Auschwitz survivor who avoided doctors for 65 years after he was tested on by Auschwitz “doctor” Josef Mengele who, among other things, removed his kidney without anesthesia.