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TIL Tommy Prince a native american who served in WW2 was so quiet because of his pair of moccasins. Sometimes instead of killing Germans, he’d steal something from them. Other times, he’d slit their throats and not make a sound.

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bjJQ TIL that Kurt Lee, the first Chinese-American US Marine Corps officer, yelled out orders in Mandarin Chinese to confuse opposing Chinese troops during the Battle of Inchon in the Korean War.
LkP6m TIL that your voice can change during different phases of the menstrual cycle due to the link between hormone levels and vocal cord functions.
EJ5d TIL that The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, a Japanese woodblock print, is considered one of the earliest examples of tentacle erotica, with this piece of art dating back to 1814.
d8Moj TIL Pizza Hut delivered a pizza to the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro, gaining a Guinness World Record for highest altitude Pizza
9KED TIL that of the of the 139 members elected to the 1934 USSR Central Committee of the Communist Party at the 17th Congress, Stalin had 98 executed. Of 1,996 party members present, 1,108 were arrested, and about two thirds of those executed. Thus it was given the name “The Congress of the Condemned”.