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TIL of Marcella LeBeau, a WWII Army Nurse who served in the wake of D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge. She received the French Legion of Honor, the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits. The Native American woman is 98 and still active in her community in South Dakota.

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P19rg TIL the Supreme Court established "the reindeer rule" determining that sufficient secular elements can counterbalance religious components in a public display, meaning that municipalities include reindeer in addition to religious holiday displays to avoid violating the First Amendment.
Oo4Jg TIL, Kenny Loggins was one of many collaborators on the song "We Are The World" by USA for Africa, and that would lead to him to performing Footloose at the Philadelphia leg of the Live Aid famine relief concert event of the 1980s.
kOj5m TIL Despite cement shoes being an execution method commonly associated with the mafia and other gangs, the first and only documented case of cement shoes used in a murder happened in May 2016.
N7BPE TIL that although the Chernobyl nuclear-power-plant had a meltdown in 1986 and had rendered the land around it uninhabitable, the remaining reactors of the facility remained in normal operation and generated power until the year 2000.
16e6O TIL that although intensely private, Joe DiMaggio allowed a children's hospital to use his name and image on condition that they never turn away a child because of inability to pay. The deal was struck with a promise and a handshake.