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TIL The Veterans Administration lobotomized over 1900 veterans of World War II

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K4p6 TIL One of the last verifiable surviving veterans of the American Revolutionary War was Lemuel Cook, who died in 1866 at 105. He lived long enough to see the end of the Civil War.
RLW6 TIL the British scrapped a plausible plan to assassinate Hitler because they believed he was doing more harm than good for the Nazi war effort.
mxJ0Y TIL Paul Rudd had the cast of Infinity War sign the Captain America shield to earn 53k for charity.
woop8 TIL about Khuk Khi Kai, a jail in Thailand which was designed so that prisoners were subjected to a regular shower of chicken poop
P18bO TIL about Tulare Lake, once the largest fresh water lake west of the Mississippi, covering an area from Fresno to Bakersfield at its maximum size. It steadily shrunk from the mid 1800s onward before eventually vanishing due to water diversion for crops. It occasionally reemerges in flood years.