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TIL During WW1 to save his fellow soldiers from being killed by enemy fire, Irish soldier Michael O'Leary charged two German barricades alone killing 8 German soldiers. It was reported that he charged the second barricade to kill a German he took a dislike to. He was awarded the Victoria Cross

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rRKXd TIL of William Lewis Moore, a white man who fought for civil rights. He planned to walk from Chattanooga, TN, to Jackson, MS, to ask Gov. Ross Barnett to change the state’s racial hierarchy. He planned to walk 40 miles a day for 10 days but was shot dead along the way - the killer was never caught.
oBmGW TIL that a 16th century clock maker built a 15 inch high automaton monk that walked and appeared to pray. It is still functioning, and is housed in the Smithsonian
KY9mw TIL that while Gina DeJesus was held captive for years in Ariel Castro's house, her father unknowingly interacted with Castro, even sharing beers and conversations in his garden, never realizing his daughter was imprisoned mere feet away.
R7N5Q TIL that only 14.5% of American men are 6 feet tall or taller. About 3% are taller than 6 feet 2 inches. Interestingly however, 58% of CEOs in the U.S. are over 6 feet.
woJl7 TIL of the Indo-Greek Kingdom, a survival of Alexander the Great's empire around modern day Pakistan that was isolated from it's Mediterranean homeland from the Parthian Persians and would survive the Roman conquest of the rest of the Greek world into our Common Era