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TIL that nobody really knows how many muscles are in the human body. Numbers range from 656 to 850 to over 50 billion depending on how you count them.

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v19r4 TIL, U.S Navy pilot David Mccampbell set a United States single mission aerial combat record of shooting down nine enemy planes in one mission during the Battle of the Leyte Gulf on October 24, 1944, while flying the F6F Hellcat. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions.
WLB8 TIL only one MythBusters result has been labeled as Busted/Plausible/Confirmed
a8MZN TIL that during WW2 the US Army opened a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee on Shotwell Road. After a newspaper letter said that the name of the street was inappropriate for wounded soldiers, the street was renamed to Getwell Road.
BQrK TIL The Green Berets in Vietnam lived with and fought alongside local tribesmen called Montagnards and developed close bonds so strong that today, the biggest Montagnard population in the US is located in NC, near to the base that HQs the Green Berets.
78eoM TIL that Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is ranked as the highest and second highest reviewed game of all time by Metacritic and GameRankings