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TIL the US Marine Corps has its own herd of bison

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KOVja TIL that Ho Chi Minh could speak conversational Esperanto, a language constructed a Polish ophthalmologist with the intent to create a universal language that is easy for anyone to learn.
6E1DJ TIL that Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and many more novels, graduated Harvard Medical School with his MD. He never obtained his medical license (after deciding he hated the system and culture), and instead pursued writing.
pY1m4 TIL In All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989) Burt Reynolds struggled over 60 takes to record Charlie saying Goodbye to Anne-Marie. Voiced by 10yo Judith Barsi, she was murdered after recording. In the final take, holding a photo of her, Burt can audibly be heard breaking down, Saying goodbye one last time.
5G79 TIL actress Marilu Henner who has a highly unusual type of memory, known as HSAM, which allows her to recall extremely specific details of any day she experienced in her life, has been part of a study that may aid Alzheimer’s research.
1a7G7 TIL that the Soviets used mobile gas chamber vans to execute groups of counter-revolutionaries during The Great Purge of the 1930's