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TIL there are 56 United States Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipients who received the medal for jumping on grenades and mines to save the lives of their comrades.

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aw0JJ TIL during the manhattan project Albert Stevens was injected with plutonium without his knowledge or explicit consent. He survived over 20 years, accumulating a total radiation dose of 64 Sv - the highest known in any human being.
06gj TIL Robert Frost would listen to muffled conversations from behind a closed door to get a feeling for what he called “the abstract sound of sense”, or the unconscious rhythms of natural speech
AD15g TIL We are likely living in a simulation
WkKAB TIL that pigeons don't have external sexual organs, so mating is accomplished by pressing their anal tracts ("cloacas") together.
Brkvx TIL: Bōnenkai is a Japanese drinking party that is organized at the end of a year. It literally translates to "forget the year gathering" and is meant to forget the woes and troubles of the past year, and hopefully look to the new year