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TIL CHEP started as an Australian Government initiative to reuse left over US Army pallets from WW2

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xoO1 TIL that with only one exception, the United States Coast Guard does not award the Medal of Honor because it is their belief that nothing is “above and beyond the call of duty”.
0dpdj TIL the song Leave Me Alone by Michael Jackson was a response to the media after a series of negative rumors about the singer, such as MJ sleeping in an oxygen chamber to slow his aging and buying the bones of the "Elephant Man". He was often referred to as "wacko jacko", a term he did not like.
Br5xe TIL that despite never achieving widespread recognition as an author, Walter Tevis, the author of the book that the Netflix show Queen's Gambit is based on, had three of his six novels turned into high profile movies, and similar to Beth Harmon, struggled with addiction for much of his life.
NXxZJ TIL Lyndon B. Johnson was less than 10 years older than John F. Kennedy...
wL9aW TIL that 2nd-century Roman artifacts were found at an archaeological site in Óc Eo in the Mekong delta area of southern Vietnam. It's likely that this is the Asian city known to the Romans as Cattigara.