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TIL cows “moo” in different accents based on their region.
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TIL In 1965 Milton Olive III sacrificed his own life to save a group of soldiers by smothering a live grenade. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor award, becoming the first African American of the Vietnam War to do so.
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TIL that John Wilkes Booth timed the deadly shot he fired at Abraham Lincoln with the funniest line from “My American Cousin,” knowing the laughter would drown out the gunshot. That line was “You sockdologizing old man-trap.”
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TIL of Japan’s Unit 731, which committed some of the most terrible war crimes in World War II, including human vivisections, innoculation of diseases, and exposure to radiation and poison gas to thousands of innocent Chinese and Russians. These crimes are still denied by the Japanese people today.
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TIL that when Harry Truman was 26, he never had a girlfriend. He sent a letter that year to his lifelong crush asking to marry him. Three weeks later, she responded by rejecting him.
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TIL the Russian city of Volgograd changes its name to Stalingrad (its former name) nine days a year