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TIL Ray Bradbury was so poor growing up that he borrowed the suit with a bullet hole his uncle was murdered in for his high school graduation ceremony.

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JbpB TIL of Medal of Honor recipient Cpl. Maxam. When his compound in Vietnam began taking heavy fire, he manned a machine gun at the most vulnerable point to return fire. He was hit with bullets, an RPG, and grenades, but kept returning fire for an hour and a half before succumbing to his wounds.
5YP7B TIL in 1999, a Las Vegas couple were unable to come to a decision on how to split up their Beanie Baby collection during their divorce settlement. A judge ordered them to dump their collection on the floor of the court and take turns picking them one-by-one.
8QZa TIL that because of the number of low-hanging power lines in San Francisco, the city’s fire department still uses handmade wooden ladders, made by on-staff master ladder makers.
wL99W TIL that the last notable author to make the Catholic Church's "banned books" list was Simone de Beauvoir. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was discontinued no sooner than 1966.
Kpe4 TIL there’s a mental illness called Cotard Delusion in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are already dead, putrefying or don’t exist.