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TIL There have been 19 U.S. service members to receive two Medals of Honor, and five of them received the Medal of Honor for the same action.

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9gor TIL that despite being in Minnesota, the Mall of America does not use any heating systems during the winter. Instead it relies on the heat from people and electronics.
N7oEE Like clockwork, every 26 seconds, seismometers across multiple continents have detected a mysterious pulse since at least the early 1960s, and no one knows why.
vPP5j TIL: Steve Irwin's daughter, Bindi, was named after Steve's favorite crocodile
pYwAZ TIL that during WWI, conductor Karl Muck, a German-born Swiss citizen and conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was interned as an enemy alien for more than a year and deported. He had been falsely accused of refusing to play the National Anthem before a concert.
ZJlp TIL that 2003 was likely “the first time an automatic weapon had been fired in a crime in Britain.”