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TIL the Hammer of Thor is an approved religious symbol for veteran gravestones in the US and two soldiers have such headstones

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K4RG TIL that Army officer Hugh Thompson prevented the deaths of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians including women and children, by a group of American soldiers. Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot, landed between the soldiers and the villagers and threatened to open fire if they continued their attacks
QxgM TIL that in an alternate DC Universe, Superman’s rocket ship lands on a Ukrainian collective farm rather than in Kansas. He is “the Champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact.”
4XLDo TIL The oldest known written complaint, is a clay tablet from ancient Babylon written c. 1750 BCE.
DnLY TIL that Nirvana was kicked out of their own release party for Nevermind because of a food fight.
R7b04 TIL the history of Londons stretcher railings, metal fences made from WW2 stretchers once used to carry wounded civilians during the Blitz.