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TIL about FNG Syndrome. Instead of rotating units into and out of Vietnam, the US military replaced individual members. The replacements were subjected to abuse from their peers, leading to an increase in the number of psychiatric casualties who were removed from the battlefield

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9YG9G TIL that the river Thames in England is 47 million years older than the Amazon
WkYBY TIL that Oprah was born to a single mother, wore potato sacks for clothes, was molested by her family, and gave birth to a stillborn child at 14
e0lo6 TIL that Penn Jillette patented the Jill-Jet, a hot tub jet specifically angled to give pleasure to a woman.
PLrZ TIL I learned that a “rat king” is a rare phenomenon when a number of rats become intertwined at their tails, which become stuck together with blood, dirt, ice, excrement or simply knotted. The animals reputedly grow together while joined at the tails and spread plague.
P5Vg TIL in 1940, 2 Australian air force planes collided and locked together midair during a training exercise yet pilot L. Fuller landed the entangled planes after traveling 5 miles, after all other crews ejected. Fuller was commemorated & promoted, but died in 1944 when his bicycle collided with a bus.