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TIL Audie Murphy received every military combat award for valor available from the US, plus awards from other countries. He single-handedly held off a company of German soldiers for, then led a successful counterattack while wounded & out of ammo.

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OG8Wg TIL- "The Pale Blue Dot" photo was taken on February 14, 1990 by Voyager 1 nearly 4 billion miles away from our Earth. "That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."
VMAg0 TIL that Australia's "Aged Dependent Relative Visa", where a person applies for their aging foreign parents to migrate to Australia, has an approximate 50 year waiting period and costs $6,100, making it virtually impossible to actually qualify.
YpWOB TIL Korea's Royal Palace was burnt down during the 1592 Japanese invasions and left in ruins for over 250 years. It was rebuilt in the 1860s but later destroyed by Japan to build the colonial government building in its place. As of now, work has been ongoing for over 4 decades to restore the site.
BgKKW TIL that Frankie Muniz quit acting in 2008 to become an open-wheel racecar driver and currently competes in NASCAR
yGmX TIL they didn’t know how strong the blast of the first prototype of the atomic bomb before detonating it in the New Mexico desert. They even had pre-prepared press releases for every event from ‘loud noise’ to 'among the dead were’.