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TIL in 1960, Congress created a medal equal to the Medal of Honor specifically to confer it upon four chaplains for actions in WWII.

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R7dr4 TIL that in 2018, it cost 2.06 cents to make a penny. This means that the US Mint loses money from every penny they make (in 2018 they lost $90 million). Even more, this means that if you melted down a penny it would be worth more than its face value.
og7r TIL Lyudmila Pavlyuchenko is regarded as the most successful female sniper in history, credited with 309 kills during WWII
rRjBx TIL roughly 70% of businesses in Sicily still pay protection money to the Sicilian Mafia.
rNkO4 TIL that the Virginia wildlife center staff dress in fox costumes while caring for orphaned kit
eMAn TIL One of the last procedures before a space shuttle launch is to remove the inflatable owls from the aircraft.