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TIL: Amish beards have no mustache because they associate them with the military, and they're pacifists

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bxr9 TIL: The Navajo code is the only spoken military code never to have been deciphered. During WWII, since only 30 non-Navajo people could understand Navajo, the US used Navajos as code talkers. They could encode, transmit, and decode a three-line message in 20 seconds, versus 30 minutes for machines.
LwKQ TIL following the 9/11 attacks, Batman Voice actor Kevin Conroy volunteered to cook for police and firefighters. At the behest of another cook he called out from the kitchen his iconic Batman line and was greeted by cheers and applause from the emergency service personal.
9w8oB TIL 5% of newborn suffers from meconium aspiration syndrome, which is when newborn babies inhale their first "poop" into their lungs when they‘re born, causing respiratory system damage and even death
8aVkb TIL alchemists considered Mercury as a magical substance that a Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang took it as the elixir of immorality which resulted in him dying at the age of 49 and even he was buried in an underground mausoleum full of mercury thinking it's going to help him rule in the afterlife
a8n4L TIL in 1983, a soviet military officer “saved the world” from a full-blown nuclear war by disobeying orders, after receiving a false alarm of missiles fired by the USA