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TIL Down Syndrome males are sterile (aside from one documented case)

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E1nOw TIL of John Birges, who flew in the Luftwaffe, escaped a Russian Gulag, made millions in the U.S. from his landscaping business, and then spent the rest of his life in prison after using 1,000 lbs of dynamite to blow up a Nevada Casino.
Z8LgQ TIL the Yongle Dadian was the biggest paper encyclopedia ever, comprising 22,937 manuscript rolls, or chapters, in 11,095 volumes (only 800 chapters in 400 volumes survived), on subjects such as agriculture, literature, medicine and religion
QP4e TIL the first US Warship to be named after a black man was named in 1943 for sailor Leonard Roy Harmon. Harmon worked serving food to officers, one of the few jobs available to black sailors. At the battle of Guadalcanal, however, Harmon deliberately exposed himself to enemy fire to save a shipmate.
aO5J TIL KitKats are considered to be good luck in Japan because the Japanese reading of “KitKat”, “kitto katto”, sounds similar to “kitto katsu”, a phrase which translates to “surely win”
P111Z TIL: 50 year old men traveling alone on foot are the most likely victims of wild boar attacks.