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TIL: People like Forrest Gump were real. In the Vietnam War, a program under LBJ, and McNamara swept through the ghettos of America looking for low IQ people to induct into the Armed Forces; in total 354000 people. Termed "McNamara's Morons" they were KIA at 3x the rate of other soldiers

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WjvA TIL student loans have passed credit cards and auto loans to become the second biggest source of personal debt in the U.S., trailing only mortgages.
e0erb TIL about Operation Catapult. After the fall of France in 1940 Churchill ordered the Royal Navy to seize or destroy the French Navy to prevent Hitler from using it. In one British attack 1,297 French sailors were killed. This proved to US that Britain would resist Nazi Germany whatever the cost
16MB8 TIL Chuck Berry was incarcerated for more than a year at Springfield's federal prison. He used his time behind bars to study business and wrote several songs including "Nadine" and “No Particular Place to Go”
gr9By TIL Europeans began eating mummies for medicinal purposes in the 12th century
d81d7 TIL: The fake rock group "The Mosquitoes" (Bingo, Bango, Bongo, and Irving) from Gilligan's Island were a real group called The Wellingtons, and had recorded the Gilligan's Island Theme song used in Season 1