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TIL China didn’t have fortune cookies until introduced 1993 and sold as “genuine American fortune cookies”

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GYjR7 Today I Learned that Hebrew was once an extinct language and remains as the only successfully revived language.
LkOB9 TIL: Because in 1971 15 percent of American soldiers in Vietnam were heroin addicts, the government started operation Golden Flow which required soldiers to pass a drug test in order to return home.
M7Y0V TIL that during the Siege of Suiyang, General Zhang Xun killed his own concubine as food for the hungry soldiers defending the city to convince them that such extreme sacrifices were worth it.
e0Pa5 TIL that Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt once snuck out of a White House event, commandeered an airplane, and went on a joyride to Baltimore.
d8A77 TIL of the so-called "Ace of the Aces." An American fighter pilot who had 40 wins, more than any other during during WWII. His name? Dick Bong.