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TIL Korea crowd-sourced down payment to the IMF using private gold in the late 90s

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b9eL7 TIL of the Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment) who were assigned to fight with the French Army in WWI because US commanders refused to accept them for combat duty with white American troops - They went on to become the most decorated American unit of the war.
XJ5j TIL Bill Nye once entered a Steve Martin look-alike contest and won.
7ARp TIL that the deepest Freedive (no air and no fins) is 106 metres deep, which is 66 metres deeper than the maximum allowed depth for recreational scubadiving (with air).
KOay4 TIL Kansas is scientifically proven to be flatter than a pancake
awMBL TIL about manual babbling. Deaf children or children born to deaf parents babble with their hands instead of vocalized babbling. Thus indicating that babbling is not nonsense, but instead an important part of language acquisition.