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TIL: During World War 1 rapid progress in medicine occurred including the first face grafts

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E15Vp TIL that there are at least 7 kinds of popcorn. 4yellow, 1red, 1blue, 1purple. Mostly all shades of white. But only 1 is a different shape!
R5p51 TIL of Bartolomé de las Casas, a 16th century Spanish priest who, in order to alleviate the suffering of Indigenous slaves in Spanish America, advocated using African and European slaves for at least most of the labor involved.
NyrQ TIL BBC World Service was originally called “The BBC Empire Service”
0wBP5 TIL the first person to be awarded two congressional medals of honor was the younger brother of General Custer who died alongside his more famous older brother. He was awarded the medals for heroic actions during the civil war in less than a week.
RLo4 TIL there was a thoroughbred racehorse with a series of significant wins in the late eighteenth century named Potoooooooo, or Pot-8-Os.