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TIL height surgery is a thing— (mostly) men are enduring months of pain, bone-breaking procedures, and intense rehab just to get a few inches taller.

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X05aP TIL L/CPL Roy M. Wheat, A US Marine was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic action that occured on August 11, 1967 in Vietnam when he dived on an exploding mine in a jungle in Quang Nam Province, saving 2 fellow Marines from injury and certain death. He was 20 years old.
6pBW TIL that Tom Moore Jr, a member of the Texas House of Representatives, introduced an April Fools resolution to illustrate how some of his colleagues didn’t read things they voted on. The bill passed, officially commending The Boston Strangler for his work in population control.
PYavZ TIL that Napoleon IV wanted to fight against Nazis but he was in exile and banned from France. He then joined the Foreign Legion with a false name and when France capitulated, he joined the French Resistance.
GYm0N TIL that the US $2 bill is still being produced in large numbers. The apparent scarcity of the bill is caused by collectors taking it out of circulation because they think that it is rarer than it actually is.
R7wlQ TIL Nigeria still has 160,000 annual deaths due to AIDS, while in Swaziland more than 1 in 4 adults has it.