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TIL: A US Air Force cadet was reading about WWII when he stumbled upon the name of a janitor that worked at his USAF Academy. That’s how it was discovered at the academy that that janitor was a Medal of Honor recipient.

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wLQK6 TIL The gas bags inside hydrogen airships of the 1930s were made from the outer layer of a cow’s intestines. Joined together when wet, the living tissues grow together, creating an impermeable bond. The gas bags of the Graf Zeppelin were made from the guts of around half a million cows.
8aPVK TIL Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction, Mission: Impossible) is the voice in the Arby's commercials ("Arby's! We have the meats!")
505Q TIL that East St. Louis has a higher murder rate than Honduras, the country with the highest murder rate in the world
KOAK6 TIL there is one character owned by both Marvel and DC, named Access, whose sole purpose is to try to keep both companies' universes separate.
wEmW TIL that Carrie Fisher was addicted to Cocaine during the filming of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and also survived an overdose