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TIL about The Most Decorated Soldier of All Time "Audie Murphy". He received award for valor available from the U.S. Army, French and Belgian awards for heroism. Murphy received the Medal of Honor for valor that he demonstrated at the age of 19 for holding off an entire German company alone.

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VMpRQ TIL of Major General Peter Conover Hains who is believed to be the only person to have served in both the American Civil War and WWI. he retired at the mandatory retirement age of 64 but was recalled to active duty out of retirement at the age of 77 in 1917 to serve in WWI as an engineer.
X0ebR TIL Passenger pusher has been a profession since atleast the early 1900s. By the 1920s the New York pushers were known and disliked international for their aggressive nature and reputation as "sardine packers".
BA9W TIL that the average attention span for humans seems to have dropped from 12 seconds in the year 2000, to 8 seconds in 2016.
pQo4 TIL in the Winter War, the Soviets, while bombing the Finns, claimed they were air-dropping food to the “starving people of Helinski”. The Finnish people dubbed the Soviet bombs “Molotov bread baskets”, and in return called their firebombs Molotov cocktails, as “a drink to go with the food.”
6E8Vl TIL that in the Antebellum South, slaves dreaded January 1 -- A.K.A. "Heartbreak Day" -- because New Year's Day was traditionally when debts were settled, resulting in black families being torn apart as slave owners sold or rented slaves out long-term to pay back those they owed money to.