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TIL 442nd Infantry Regiment which comprised of 2nd Gen Japanese Americans is the most decorated unit in US military history.

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QJk1p TIL of the Bronze Age collapse, in which incredibly rich, powerful, advanced civilizations, dependent on complex trade and agriculture, vanished in the span of a human lifetime.
QJjZ6 TIL the voice of the primary Soviet radio announcer during WW2, a Jewish man named Yuri Levitan, was so unique and inspiring that Hitler personally placed a bounty (250,000 Reichsmarks, which is roughly $1.3 million dollars in today’s currency) on him.
vPRYx TIL that the lottery is illegal in Nevada
65Kl TIL when Jay Z was 12 he shot his older brother for stealing his ring for drug money.
5VBnr TIL Eva Peron (Evita), wife of Argentina's president Juan Peron, died of cervical cancer at the age of 33.He never told her that she had cancer and was dying. Ironically, his first wife also died of cervical cancer at 28 yrs old. Doctors felt that he passed the HPV virus on to his wives.