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TIL that Smedley Butler is the last person to have been awarded the Medal of Honor twice

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vjKL TIL NC banned the use of scientific predictions of sea-level rise in determining coastal policies
16W98 TIL that Hollywood's first Chinese-American film star Anna May Wong had to support herself by becoming an Australian vaudeville chanteuse, a British theatrical luminary and a B-film pulp diva because of the shortage of roles for Asian actors and Hollywood tending to cast white actors in those roles
X0gV8 TIL that the Alfa Romeo Logo isn’t a snake with a red tongue, but a snake eating a human.
gyPb TIL: MTV’s “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom” Contributed to A Drop in Teen Birth Rate
XEooj TIL that the more empathic a partner is, the better their touch is at reducing their partner's experience of pain, a phenomenon known as social touch analgesia.