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TIL: In the US Virgin Islands, you drive on the Left (the only US Territory that does so). But because the vehicles are US Federalized Imports, drivers also sit on the Left hand side of the car.

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0d9E1 TIL that the guy responsible for making doctors realize stress and spicy food doesn’t cause ulcers poisoned himself, intentionally gave himself ulcers, and got the Nobel Prize for it
loK7r TIL as Lt. Dan Inouye was about to toss a grenade at a German machine gun nest, a Nazi shot his arm off with an RPG. Undaunted, Inouye pulled the live grenade from his severed hand, tossed it, put his gun in his left hand, then wiped out three machine gun nests and killed 25 Nazis on his own.
E1BL7 TIL that Newton’s development of the Universal Law of Gravity over 300 years ago led at least indirectly to the ending of the practice of burning witches in Europe
j4Vn TIL: That there is a Sizable Ethnic Minority group living in Siberia who are reputed to have the “most red-headed” people in the world.
xVykw TIL About the Kogi people who are thought to be last surviving pre-Colombian culture past the Aztecs. Their high priests are chosen at birth and spend their first 9 years of life secluded in a cave in total darkness learning the ways of “Aluna”(Mother Earth). The cave is said to represent her womb