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Today I learned that the Count of Sesame Street is close to two million years old...and still counting!

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mxajY 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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