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TIL: Germany has a monument to the unknown deserter, honoring soldiers who refused to kill.

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M7j88 TIL that Apple has a no-villains clause for iPhones. According to director Rian Johnson, anyone who portrays a bad guy using an iPhone in a film will never receive cooperation from the company again.
DQPAg TIL amputees who experience Phantom Itching where their limb use to be often use a mirror and scratch the opposite limb to trick the brain into satisfying the urge.
6oel TIL nearly 200 years before turducken became popular, there was the Rôti Sans Pareil: a bustard stuffed with a turkey-goose-pheasant-chicken-duck-guinea fowl-teal-woodcock-partridge-plover-lapwing-quail-thrush-lark-ortolan-bunting and garden warbler, the last being just big enough to hold an olive.
dD9JB TIL that a former Kellogg factory worker filmed himself urinating on a cereal conveyor belt at a facility in Memphis, Tennesse, only to upload a video of the incident two years later. Kellogg only learned of the incident after the video was uploaded.
78ZD7 TIL that the British won a significant naval victory after the Battle of Yorktown in the Caribbean, called the Battle of the Saintes, which returned their advantage at sea. This had a major impact on the post-American Revolution peace treaty giving the British much better terms.