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TIL Congressional Medal of Honor Winner Peter Lemon was high on marijuana when he single-handedly fought off two waves of Vietcong troops and dragged a wounded soldier to safety

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7ryxM TIL the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group found seven previously unacknowledged massacres from 1967 through 1971 in which at least 137 civilians were killed. The harshest sentence was 20 years but the officer served 7 months.
e0wPb TIL only 64–77% of people experience a headache at some point in their lives.
ZplG TIL that in Yakutia Russia, temperatures become so cold that trees explode, blue sparks fly from falling timber, mercury freezes and exhaled breathe is transformed into a shower of ice crystals called “the whisper of the stars”.
Moy0 TIL Rosa Parks sued Outkast in a case that ended up going to the Supreme Court
9YX8D TIL about Yellowstone's Zone-of-Death, a 50 square-mile plot of land in the National Park where it is legal to commit crimes, including murder