J. D Salinger
The man who wrote “The Catcher in the Rye” was first a U.S Army sergeant. He stormed Normandy on D-Day and cites his time in the forces as a huge inspiration.
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The More You Know
- In one month, the average person consumes about a Lego brick’s worth of microplastic.
- There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
- In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
- Over 80 million bacteria can be exchanged in one kiss.