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TIL about Captain Richard J. Flaherty AKA “The Giant Killer”, one of the smallest men to ever serve in the military at 4’ 9” / 97lbs. He earned the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart (1OLC), Air Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Combat Infantryman’s Badge and Parachutist Badge in the Vietnam War.

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LkY7Z TIL pianist Ian Stewart Co-founded The Rolling Stones, was removed from the band in '63, but still played for them for over two decades, and was their road manager.
4kvoo Today I learned of Eben Byers, 1920s industrialist and amateur golf champion who died of "generalized cancer" after drinking 1,400 doses of a quack remedy containing radium. At the end of his life, "holes were actually forming in his skull".
JY4A4 TIL “Gotham” comes from an older English for “goat home” and was first used to characterize New York in 1807 because the inhabitants where considered by the author a foolish and self-important people.
pYwNp TIL in response to criticism of Mazda naming their SUV after the Navajo, the company donated a Mazda Navajo model to the tribe
0wGE5 TIL that despite being the largest animal on Earth, the Blue Whale cannot swallow anything larger than a beach ball.