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TIL: Delta airlines no longer allows snub nosed dog breeds such as bulldogs, pugs, shar pei, etc. because of the breeds' breathing difficulties.

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VpXQ TIL in 1960, Congress created a medal equal to the Medal of Honor specifically to confer it upon four chaplains for actions in WWII.
OEL6 TIL of “The Mad Piper” Bill Millin, the only bagpiper to land on the beach in Normandy. While men fell around him, he played his pipes throughout the battle. A group of captured German snipers was asked why they hadn’t shot him. They replied that they thought he’d gone insane and felt bad for him.
aBQ0 TIL: Usain Bolt ate nothing but chicken nuggets while he was in Beijing because that was “the only thing he knew” and won 3 gold medals
OoAGX TIL Dr. Seuss's wife died from suicide due to Seuss's affair with another woman named Audrey Stone Dimond. Who he later married on June 21, 1968.
6QbY TIL that when played together, the McBain clips from The Simpsons form a coherent mini-movie