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TIL female lumberjacks are called lumberjills

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woLxo TIL about the Horse, Sergeant Reckless. A Horse who served with the marines in Korea. She was able to haul ammunition by herself without a handler, would seek a bunker or lay down when under fire and received two purple hearts as well as other medals for her service in the Korean war.
6EKxm TIL about the bristol stool chart. A 7 pronged classification system for poop developed by Dr KW Heaton in 1997, formerly Reader in Medicine at the University of Bristol.
Y8Gx TIL Fanny Cochrane Smith was the last fluent Tasmanian speaker; she also recorded the only known audio recordings of Tasmanian music, which you can hear on Wikipedia.
vWKL TIL that when switching languages, multilingual people also switch their personalities
MZ8 TIL All of Earth’s mineable gold came from meteorites, since the Earth’s original gold was all pulled into the core