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TIL Teenager protested CIA drone strikes, killed by a drone four days later

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xVnMD TIL that when Ronald E. Rosser lost one of his brothers in Korea, he enlisted to get revenge and would end up earning the Medal of Honor. When another brother was killed in Vietnam, he once again volunteered to fight but was turned down.
1R08 TIL American pronunciation is actually closer to traditional English than modern British pronunciation.
8mya TIL every year thousands of Great White Sharks congregate in a remote area of the Pacific Ocean. No one knows why.
XEn8r TIL that it takes your GPS receiver up to 12 minutes to adjust the time correctly. The GPS time is presently 18 seconds ahead of UTC because they started timekeeping in 1980 and can't factor in leap seconds.
ayeo TIL of Captain Mbaye Diagne, a Senegalese unarmed military observer with the UN during the Rwandan Genocide. Alone and against orders, he used his UN vehicle to ferry hundreds of Tutsis and moderate Hutus to safety, bluffing, bribing and begging his way through checkpoints manned by génocidaires.