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TIL of Cathy Wayne, an Australian singer who was shot and killed onstage while on a USO tour in Vietnam – by a US soldier

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e0j16 TIL: while George Washington's will does say hhis saleves should be free, it should only be done at his wife's insistence. Martha Washington would only free them when she came under the belief that they were trying to kill her.
xRDo TIL During the Korean War, A battalion of 200 U.S. troops, thought to de dead, emerged from behind enemies lines, led to safety by a 10 yr old South Korean boy. The boy was installed as unit mascot.
b9dgQ TIL that Confederate soldiers could not be buried in national cemeteries, nor were they afforded any benefits from the United States Government. When the reburial corps in the late 1860s found remains on battlefields, they'd remove the Union soldiers and leave the Confederates.
GY0pE TIL up to 95% of kangaroos are left "handed". In contrast to humans, who are 90% right handed.
90jQ TIL that a father and son were matched against each other in the National Scrabble Championship. The father won by playing “DEFEATED” as his last word.