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OR6a TIL Cinco de Mayo is only popular among the Chicanos in the US. In Mexico, it’s not even a national holiday.
1QN7 TIL The Department of Veterans Affairs still issues a monthly pension payment to 84-year-old Irene Triplett, for her father’s service in the Union Army during the US Civil War.
gMlDy TIL In 1944, a Finnish soldier escaping the Russian Army took 30x the dosage of methamphetamines designed to keep soldiers awake. He managed to ski 250 miles surviving on only a raw bird and some pine buds, and when he got to hospital a week later his heart rate was 200BPM.
vR4D Today I learned that, prior to the advent of Christianity, the LGBT were esteemed by Native Americans as having two spirits.
ANLyo TIL: a 12-year-old Jewish violin prodigy named Motele Schlein, after witnessing his family’s murder by Nazis, joined the resistance and planted explosives in a restaurant where he performed, killing over 100 high-ranking Nazi SS officers