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TIL that there are still 120,000 survivng WW2 vets in the US

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7w87 TIL Melvin E. Biddle, for his actions during the Battle of the Bulge, earned the Medal of Honor on October 30, 1945, by President Truman. When presenting the medal, Truman whispered “People don’t believe me when I tell them that I’d rather have one of these than be President.”
wLeM TIL Asperger’s syndrome used to be called “autistic psychopathy”
X0GOj TIL that there are 72 names of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians engraved on the Eiffel Tower
wLe41 TIL That Mussolini's Fascist Revolutionary Party tried to "out-socialist the socialists" in Italy's 1919 elections & the socialists received 40 times as many votes. Mussolini lost so badly that he received zero votes in his home town & the socialists held a mock funeral procession for his career.
KrlJ TIL despite being worth an estimated $8.3 billion there is no public record of Steve Jobs giving money to charity. He declined to participate in the Giving Pledge founded by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates