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TIL that "having the guts to fight" used to mean soldiers being diarrhea-free, and thus able to participate in battle

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awBZN TIL about Wholphins, a rare cross between a whale and a dolphin. First recorded in 1981 in captivity, but also found in the wild.
16VGX TIL about Yang Jingyu: a Chinese resistance leader who fought the Japanese during WWil. Yang was encircled & killed after 5 days of fighting alone in the wild. An autopsy found only bark and grass roots in his stomach. His desecrated body was later given a proper burial due to fear of his ghost.
69lYW TIL Frank Lloyd Wright and Georgia O'Keeffe met in 1942 and continued to correspond with one another over the years. Their lives followed parallel arcs—from their births in rural Wisconsin, to finding success in an American metropolis, and refining their craft in isolated southwest desert enclaves.
nWmvd TIL There are no seagulls in Hawaii
w1no TIL that in 1914, Frank Lloyd Wright’s manservant murdered 7 people, including Wright’s mistress, by trapping them inside the dining room of the original Taliesin, setting the house on fire, and taking an ax to victims who tried to escape.