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P1JdZ TIL about McNamara's Morons and Project 100,000. Very low IQ and disabled men recruited and used as cannon fodder in Vietnam. They died at three times the rate of other soldiers. Over 350,000 men involved.
Y7GEB TIL that Christopher Guest who played Nigel Tufnel on This Is Spinal Tap was also a member of the British House of Lords.
oRxKW TIL a sloth can hold it's breath longer than a dolphin.
KPy9 TIL a tractor trailer’s hitch came loose in Indianapolis and spilled 38,000 pounds of marbles on the roadway.
R5K01 TIL about Roy Sullivan, a park ranger at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. He holds the record for being struck by lightning more times than any other human being. Between 1942 and 1977, he was struck by lightning seven times.