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TIL Dr. Deborah Birx achieved the rank of Colonel in the military

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MeVVb TIL that the Bible says farmers should leave the edges of their fields unharvested to feed the poor and foreigners
7rjlp TIL that approx 50 percent of the flavor compounds in a wine are liberated or created by yeast, a wild yeast mostly. That's why the same grape species in different regions provides different wine flavor.
6E5MZ TIL that the last surviving captive of the last slave ship to bring African slaves to the US was interviewed in the 1930s
wo6X6 TIL about Operation Paul Bunyan, where the US cut down a tree in the Korean DMZ as a response to the murder of two officers, deploying over 800 soldiers and air support without any shots fired. The operation left a 19-foot stump as a reminder of the incident.
W759 TIL the big island of Hawaii installed special street lights so the Mauna Kea observatory can have the darkest skies possible when stargazing