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TIL in 1938, Charles A. Lindbergh received the Service Cross of the German Eagle, presented to him by Hermann Goering on behalf of Adolf Hitler. The medal was partially for his feats of flying but also for being an ardent proponent of Nazi Germany's military superiority and American isolationism.

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8e8VV TIL On June 12, 1970,"Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis did something that, by all rights, should be completely impossible: He went and threw a no-hitter despite being high as a kite on lysergic acid diethylamide, otherwise known as acid."
b9BME TIL Saddam Hussein commissioned a calligrapher to write a copy of the Quran using his blood as ink. The 605 page book contains roughly 27 liters of his blood and is kept in a mosque in Iraq behind 3 vault doors.
69RkZ TIL a woman became addicted to bee stings. It started as an occasional sting to relieve pain from arthritis, but it "spiraled into a full-blown addiction" at 15 stings a day and about 50,000 times total since she started.
E1vgw TIL that Teddy Roosevelt took a break from the presidency to go camping with John Muir for four days. They explored without any supervision/security. Roosevelt was so inspired by the trip that it eventually led to the creation of the National Park Service.
v1lgr TIL The approximate Korean word for friend "Chingu" is only used with people of the same age. You can be friendly with older people or younger people, but you will never be friends with people who aren't the same age