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TIL: some people cut their hair with a vacuum
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TIL about Desmond Doss, a WWII medic who was teased for his choice to not harm the enemy or wield a weapon. He would go on to win the Medal of Honor for saving more than 50 men after a mortar attack, and the heroics were made into the award winning movie "Hacksaw Ridge".
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TIL that Latvia has one of the fastest Internet download and upload speeds in the world, and beats out the U.S by a sizable margin.
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TIL of the Aka tribe in Central Africa where male and female roles are virtually interchangeable. Women hunt, men mind the children,and vice versa. Men spend 47 percent of their time within reach of their kids, more than any other society, and even let them suckle.
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TIL that Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Wall, got a “B” in her architecture class for her design from her professor who also submitted a design for the wall - losing to his student.
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TIL about Esmie Tseng. She endured parental abuse despite having top marks in school, often getting punished by standing naked in the corner for grades such as 96%. In 2005, she murdered her mother with a butcher knife. Later, she was tried as an adult and ultimately served six years in prison.