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TIL that Abraham Lincoln is in the wrestling hall of fame. His career span 13 years in which he suffered only one defeat in his 300 or so contests.

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Z8Mbo TIL children develop stronger bonds and derive more satisfaction from relationships with their pets than with their siblings, more so if the pets are dogs.
9YNmp TIL Liechtenstein is so small Switzerland has invaded it 3 times by mistake. On one occasion the Swiss started a forest fire when they misfired a rocket in bad weather. Another time Swiss cadets stumbled into a Liechtenstein village and they didn’t find out until the Swiss formally apologized.
VMRxm TIL Jacklyn Lucas joined the Marines at age 14 (via forged documents). He saved 3 comrades in Iwo Jima when 2 grenades landed near them, by pushing one into ash/sand and covering it with his body, and pulling the other one beneath him. One exploded. He survived and earned a Medal of Honor at age 17.
Ww9o TIL: A new paper published in nature show that when doing certain experiments in mice, the gender of the researcher can greatly vary the results of experiment observed in mice. Mice are scared ‘shitless’ when men are around.
rRaY1 TIL that more civilians died in the battle of Stalingrad than the nuclear attacks on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.