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TIL, the youngest soldier to be killed in action in the Vietnam War, Dan Bullock was 15 years old

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a81G0 TIL that the Terrible's gas station / convenience store chain, a fixture in California, Nevada, and Arizona, was so named for its founder and original owner Edward R. "Terrible" Herbst. Herbst was often called "terrible" by his business rivals, and decided to use his label as a marketing gimmick.
Wkjg8 TIL that British troops never simply marched straight into gunfire at the battle of the Somme. Instead, the reason for the staggering casualties was due to strategic blunders, the concentrated battlefield, and the preparedness of the German forces.
8eNdG TIL that UC Berkeley offers a degree in "meme studies"
DVGe TIL that, as she was fleeing indigenous North Americans, Leif Erikson’s half-sister drew a dead man’s sword, slashed one of her exposed breasts, and frightened her pursuers away
dDX47 TIL that in the United States Virgin Islands cars travel on the left side of the road, it is the only place in the United States that does this.