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TIL that the last serving soldier drafted during the Vietnam war didn’t retire until 2014

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5JeP TIL “Boondock Saints” received an aggregate critic score 20%. The public gave it 92%.
e0xvL TIL pedestrianism was a famous sport in the 19th century where people would compete to walk the furthest distance in the shortest amount of time. A famous challenge was walking 1000 miles in 1000 hours, first completed by Robert Barclay Allardice in 1809.
5Veep TIL racing icon Carroll Shelby helped found the Chili’s restaurant chain. After Shelby held what is widely recognized as the first organized chili cook-off in 1967, his son-in-law approached him with a proposal for a chili-themed restaurant. Shelby provided funding and curated the menu and design.
nv7W TIL that Ernest Hemingway’s mother disliked his first book, The Sun Also Rises, apparently claiming he was “prostituting a great talent” and “pandering to sensationalism”
mkYR TIL: Astronaut John Young smuggled a Corned Beef Sandwich onboard Gemini III because he was “unhappy with with the terrible-tasting space food that astronauts received”.