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TIL the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is part of the Department of Commerce because President Nixon's Secretary of the Interior publicly criticized the administration's Vietnam War policy. Nixon punished him by putting the new agency under a different department.

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KYZgJ TIL there are 56 United States Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipients who received the medal for jumping on grenades and mines to save the lives of their comrades.
0w9Ny TIL that the reason some dinosaurs were able to get so large was that they had "air sacks" in and around their bones, which prevented them from being crushed under their own weight and allowing them to grow to enormous sizes.
OEpL TIL Homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming they “felt gay”.
Bg7nW TIL There’s a Christian Furry community
wL1WY TIL about Kelly Pilcher, a young woman from Texas, who needed to have a rib removed. After the surgery succeeded, she took her removed rib to a knifemaker, and had it made into a castration knife.