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TIL that Al Capone’s WWI draft card claimed he was a “paper cutter”

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8RAK TIL that, when asked to comment on the contentious grammar law which states that one is not to end sentences with prepositions, Winston Churchill replied, “That is nonsense, up with which I shall not put.”
X6KE TIL there is more gold in the Earth than silver, mercury, iodine, and uranium combined.
GYd5J TIL that fungi are evolutionarily more closely related to animals than to plants, and this was not recognized until a few decades ago.
OG6G4 TIL Corporal Nand Singh earned the Victoria Cross in WW2. He captured 3 trenches, killing soldiers with his bayonet despite wounds. He earned another medal in 1947, capturing a bunker by killing enemy with his bayonet. The Pakistanis threw his body in a garbage dump, never to be recovered.
BrmZW TIL there is a vagina extender used to customize penetration depth