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TIL That so many Purple Hearts were produced in the anticipation of the invasion of the Japanese mainland in WWII that they are still being issued today in Iraq and Afghanistan

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OG8YR TIL That the creator of Conan, Robert E Howard, killed himself at age 30, only writing Conan stories for 4 years of his life
Z8gdR TIL In languages, there is a reproducible correlation between the time required to pronounce numbers in a language and the memory span of its speakers. e.g Chinese number words are remarkably brief. Most of them can be uttered in less than (1/4)th of a second which results in their high memory.
e78b TIL the deadliest snow storm in recorded history occurred in Iran in 1972. The week-long weather system buried areas in as much as 26ft of snow, killing over 4,000 people, including the entire populations of 3 villages.
D1YlJ TIL An Ohio judge once sentenced a woman to sit in the "stinkiest, smelliest" area of a garbage dump for 8 hours, as a punishment for neglecting her dog. "If you puke, you puke."
kOX1e TIL West Indies got its name in 1492 because of a confusion. Christopher Columbus sailed west to find India but he landed in the Bahamas and mistook it for India.