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xVd15 TIL: Many of the most popular Christmas songs in America were written by Jewish writers
5Ywp8 TIL a public speaking expert theorised that the Australian accent sounds slurred because the first colonists were always drunk.
Wrw8 TIL of Dickey Chapelle, The first female reporter and correspondent killed in action. Dickey was at Iwo Jima, Okinawa during ww2 and covered the Hungarian revolution of 1956; She traveled with the troops and learned to jump with paratroopers. She was killed during the Vietnam war.
j64ga TIL the first antitoxin for botulism was harvested from the blood of a single horse, named First Flight, for 15 years until 1993.
KYZo9 TIL that the youngest American to serve in the military in WW2 was Calvin Graham, age 12. He served in the US Navy and fought at Guadalcanal, was awarded 8 medals which were subsequently stripped when his mother saw him on a news reel and told the Navy his real age.