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TIL the average infantryman in the South Pacific during World War II saw about 40 days of combat in four years. The average infantryman in Vietnam saw about 240 days of combat in one year

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rR9VM TIL Bill Darden (the founder of Red Lobster) opened his first restaurant, a luncheonette called The Green Frog in Wayward, Georgia at 19 in 1938. He refused to segregate customers by race. Segregation was a state law in 30’s Georgia.
YpJx7 TIL Infant simulator programs in high schools, intended to discourage teenage pregnancies, actually backfired.
rNNkx TIL that pregnant women in Cambodia are on occasion killed for their unborned fetus
KObG6 TIL that Mark Zuckerberg is actually only five foot seven inches tall, but he stages his photos to exaggerate his height.
rN4O0 TIL that the most dangerous US city to drive in during the winter is Chattanooga, Tennessee which sees 8.35 fatal collisions for every 100,000 residents in the winter. (The distant 2nd place is Atlanta, Georgia at 5.73 fatal car accidents per 100,000 people.)