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TIL that in 1917, under orders from Surgeon General Rupert Blue, cigarettes were included in the ration kits for every fighting man in the US Military.

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l1Na TIL A cat survived the sinking of three separate ships in World War Two, earning its title as “Unsinkable Sam.”
d8OgQ TIL The Snow in the Blizzard of 1949 was So Hard and So Deep they Used Dynamite to Blast the Trains Free
rNkk0 TIL the hanging boxes on power lines are called Stockbridge dampers and mitigate specific vertical movement (called Aeolian vibration) in the cables that would otherwise result in stress fatigue and potential separation. This is the same vibration that destroyed the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940.
mxK8o TIL: That adopted children of homosexual parents are significantly more likely to have non-hetero sexuality types, indicating that sexuality is not always determined by genes and is a trait that can be taught, influenced, or acquired.
9Qd6 TIL Edward Pena, one of the trapped Chilean miners finished a marathon after training everyday while trapped in the mine for 69 days