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TIL: Only 25% of American combat soldiers in Europe fired their weapons at the enemy during World War 2.

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ERV TIL the meaning of the word mortgage is literally “death contract”
p8X5b TIL the largest murder case conducted in human history was first-chaired by a rookie who'd never been in court before - and he won. His name is Benjamin Ferencz and he is still going strong at 101 years old.
P4rO TIL in 1951, MGM owed the dog that played Lassie $40,000 in back pay. Planning on ending the franchise and in lieu of payment MGM gave full rights to the Lassie trademark to the dog’s trainer, who then spun it off into a TV show that ran for 571 episodes.
8ybb TIL Emmy was the ship’s cat on the RMS Empress of Ireland. She never missed a voyage. However, on 28 May 1914, Emmy tried to escape the ship. The crew could not coax her aboard and the Empress left without her, which was regarded as a terrible omen. Early the next morning the Empress sank.
78QBX TIL about Peregrinus Proteus, a second century Greek philosopher who self-immolated at the Olympic games of 165 after reading his own funeral oration.