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TIL in war it is illegal under the Geneva Convention to pretend to be injured in order to trick the enemy

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4XQBX TIL Pedro Pascal (of The Mandalorian) has appeared in the Law & Order franchise four times, playing a different character in each episode
LkbMr TIL since 1922, the British Royal Horticultural Society has given out an annual Award of Garden Merit to the plant or crop which performs best under UK growing conditions.
4Xwgg TIL that during the fall of Saigon in April of 1975, the American radio station played "White Christmas" to signal American troops to immediately move to evacuation points
6EMrJ TIL there's a deep-sea sponge that can live up to 11.000 years
neeab TIL Early versions of the Jimmy Croce 1973 smash hit, "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" included the line, "meaner than a concentration camp dog," but Croce decided that it was unpleasant to the ear and it was also offensive to Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals.