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TIL about 100 firefighters are convicted of arson in the United States each year

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W7JrB TIL 18 year old Milton Olive III saved the lives of 4 soldiers by grabbing a grenade that was thrown in their midst and falling on it to absorb the blast with his body. Posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, he was the first African American recipient from the Vietnam War.
P1jL TIL that despite the fear projected by mass media, virtually all of the few known candy poisoning incidents involved parents who poisoned their own children’s candy.
Lk1AZ TIL the first black white interracial kiss on American TV was on an episode of Star Trek. The producers were worried the show would get banned in the South because of it, so they tried to shoot alternate versions of the shot. The actors flubbed those shots on purpose.
ZL5v TIL that in July of 2015, Mitchelle Blair received a life sentence without possibility for parole after torturing and murdering two of her four children, ages 9 and 13, based on claims from her youngest child that the two had molested him. She then stored their bodies in her home freezer.
OGZwX TIL: that the Atomium landmark in Belgium is modeled after an iron crystal magnified 165 million times