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TIL Researchers have found a link between pigmentation (melanocortin system) and aggression/promiscuity in animals

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ZLVQ TIL US Navy SEAL Mike Thornton earned the Medal of Honor in Vietnam for saving the life of Thomas Norris, another SEAL, who would also later receive the Medal of Honor for a previous rescue mission, making it the first time in a century where a MOH recipient saved the life of another MOH recipient.
W6po TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous line: “Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people.”
4k1XN TIL that excepting cats, insects and songbirds, no females of any species are allowed in Agio Oros - male monastery situated on Mount Athos in northeastern Greece
0wjaj TIL (Memorial day) 61% of U.S troops killed in Vietnam were younger than 21 years old. Many had been drafted
Lkd5v TIL that in 1979, Brenda Spencer shot up an elementary school, killing two and wounding nine other people. When asked why she did it, she replied, "I don't like Mondays..." inspiring the song by the Boomtown Rats song.