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TIL Genghis Khan once ordered his starving army to eat every tenth man.

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wLpAW TIL that Reno/Tahoe was the divorce capital of North America in the early 1900s because of its very lax divorce laws and only requiring 24 weeks of residence to file for divorce.
NXXNe TIL that B.F. Skinner, in his work on superstitious behavior in pigeons, trained pigeons to guide missiles in WWII by pecking a key. Despite working very well it was never used in combat.
9wDYQ TIL that IHOP actually stands for International House of Pancakes
kgkg TIL of Tanya Savicheva, a young Russian girl who kept a diary through the siege of Leningrad. The last entry is “All Savichevs died. Now remains only Tanya.” Tanya later died as well.
D1pMj TIL Union artillery officer Alonzo Cushing was killed after being wounded twice during the Battle of Gettysburg, refusing evacuation from his position atop Cemetery Ridge during Pickett’s Charge. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor 151 years later, the longest wait for any recipient.