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TIL Martha Gellhorn, wife of Ernest Hemingway, impersonated a medic to go ashore without permission on D-Day. She was the only woman to report from the landing beaches.

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P7og TIL when Andrew Jackson was asked what his most important accomplishment had been during his term as president, he replied, “I killed the bank.” He was talking about the Second Bank of the United States.
wlnM TIL: President Andrew Jackson was involved in as many as 100 duels. He was shot in the chest in 1806 and took a bullet in the arm in a bar fight with Missouri Sen. Thomas Hart Benton in 1813. Most were to defend his wife’s honor.
dDaGK TIL fax machines were first used in the 1800s
j6EMv TIL that the inverted crucifix, a popular symbol of Satanic culture, actually has Christian roots. It is called the Cross of Saint Peter, and looks like a typical crux immissa, only inverted. It is to represent St. Peter's crucifixion, as he was crucified upside down.
lvpV TIL the difference in time between when the Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus lived is greater than the difference in time between Tyrannosaurus Rex and now