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TIL a Navy Seal Lieutenant, Michael P. Murphy, along with a 4-man team were pinned down by nearly 100 Taliban Militants in a remote part of Afghanistan. Murphy made his way to a high-point in the mountains to successfully phone in reinforcements. He continued to fight for 2 hours until his death.

yGNV TIL the Statue of Liberty didn’t turn completely green until 1906
R5pp4 TIL that when swallowing, the tongue elevates to push food back into the pharynx.
opo7 TIL Germany’s debt from WW1 was equivalent to 96,000 tons of gold.
O0ma TIL That One Million Dollars of Monopoly money has been transported by private plane and armored car
yWxw TIL the West African Ebola outbreak is linked to people eating bats.