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TIL Tibor Rubin, a Holocaust Survivor, fought for the US in Korea. Once he held off an enemy assault for 24 hours alone. Later wounded and captured, he would risk certain death by stealing food from his captors and giving medical aid to his fellow prisoners, saving over 40 lives in the process.

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1DxX TIL A rapist still has parental rights over the child in the majority of US States
ANXZx TIL Stan Lee, who helped create Daredevil, was concerned that exaggerating the way a blind person's other senses are heightened would upset blind people. However, after receiving letters from blind people who enjoyed having Daredevil comics read to them, he felt relieved.
Zev TIL there’s a floating island the size of a football field in Springfield, Massachusetts that destroys fences and sheds as it occasionally moves around.
W77Ad TIL more than 35,000 Americans served in the Canadian Army in WWI, accounting for nearly 10% of all Canadian soldiers
grrX9 TIL Aeschylus, one of the greatest tragedians of ancient Greece, regarded as the father of the genre itself, died after a bird dropped a tortoise on his head, thinking it was a rock to break it open.