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ANrv7 TIL that in the 1960s, a major conflict broke out between Brazil and France that essentially argued about whether lobsters walked or swam. At its peak, both countries sent out warships to protect their fishing zones.

GANBQ TIL that the Treaty of Versailles included a clause demanding Germany return the skull of Chief Mkwawa, an East African leader who fiercely resisted German colonialism.

yVyap TIL that during WW1 the British government outlawed the act of buying somebody else a drink with the “No treating order”