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TIL there actually was a John Rambo in Vietnam and his name can be found on the Vietnam Memorial. Oh, and he won a silver star

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OodBg TIL that SNL star Bill Hader's 40th Great Grandfather is Charlemagne
ne5KW TIL that some animals and insects, like squirrels and bumblebees, use a “mating plug” to prevent other males from inseminating females they have already mated with.
9w5lQ TIL that in 2001, a 13-year-old Boy Scout named Cody Clawson went missing for over 18 hours near Yellowstone Park. Clawson resorted to using his belt buckle to signal to planes overhead. Eventually, he got a pilot’s attention - and that pilot was none other than Harrison Ford - who rescued Clawson.
OGxdg TIL There were nazi prisoner camps in rural Virginia towards the end of WW2. They were there to, among other things, to pick apples while American Servicemen were fighting in Europe.
0GA5 TIL: The “chestbuster” scene in Alien was inspired by the feeling/pain that it’s writer, Dan O'Bannon, experienced when battling Crohn’s Disease.