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TIL I learned about Herschel "Woody" Williams. The last surviving WWII Medal of Honor recipient.

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6Ex5m TIL male penguins don’t have penises and penguins just kind of “rub holes” to have sex.
K7MQ TIL: Concerned about the censorship of human genitalia on extraterrestrial messages, one MIT researcher recorded & transmitted the sound of a ballerina’s vagina contracting. The transmission was intercepted & cut off by the US Air Force but parts of it managed to reach two stars in 1996 & 1998.
nopb TIL that washing your hands in hot water doesn’t kill germs any better than washing them in cold water, a study found. Water hot enough to kill germs would scald your skin.
kJBEW TIL that Sam Faubus, the father of infamous Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, privately disapproved of his sons actions during the Little Rock Crisis, going so far as to write letters in support of desegregation to the Arkansas Gazette.
Bo0K TIL when “Breaking Bad” was proposed to TV networks, 2 TNT executives loved the story pitch about a middle-aged teacher diagnosed with cancer and turning to a life of crime, but feared getting fired from their jobs over the meth storyline and wanted to change Walter White into a counterfeiter.