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OGLVe TIL White Star Line billed the families for uniforms of staff who died on the Titanic
a8DeA TIL - Lichtenstein during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 had an army of 80 soldiers, and they returned home with no casualties and a new friend they made along the way
jNkQv TIL that Alan Turing volunteered during war and in the application form he answered a question that asked the applicant if they understood that by signing up they place themselves liable to military law as "No". No one noticed, he became a fine marksman and then got out by citing this technicality.