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TIL that nearly 60 percent of Medal of Honor recipients have been Irish-American, including 257 Irish natives.

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WkvmY TIL that there was a conspiracy theory that the Vatican supported the Confederacy and that Pope Pius IX orchestrated the death of Abraham Lincoln.
8elAX TIL that in Germany Vick's VapoRub is sold under the name Wick VapoRub because "Vick's", when pronounced in German, sounds too similar to the vulgar word fick.
Y7mZ7 TIL the most translated book after the Bible is The Little Prince
yGll TIL that until 1994, a pencil was inserted into a person’s hair to help determine a South African’s racial identity. If the pencil fell out easily, the person was considered white.
xmk7 TIL Continuum, a magazine which served as an outlet for AIDS denialism including pseudoscientific “studies”, ended after the editors all died following long bouts with AIDS.