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TIL Smedley Butler earned 2 Medals of Honor but said of his military career “…I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers.”

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NVVJ TIL that half of all human deaths from the beginning of time can be attributed to malaria
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P1MgE TIL the Platypus is one of the few mammals to lay eggs and produce venom.
Lmlm TIL The THX Sound (Deep Note) is perceived louder than it actually is because it has such a large spectrum of frequencies
wLom7 TIL that ginger ale is a popular drink when flying because of ideas about ginger's soothing effect on stomachs, despite the fact that most ginger ale sold on airplanes contains little to no real ginger.