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TIL there is no such thing as a 24 hour flu, you have been the lucky recipient of food poisoning.

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gp5A TIL During the first successful Commando raid at Lofoten, Norway in WWII, the officer used the local telegraph office to send to “A.Hitler in Berlin,” the following message: “You said in your last speech, German troops would meet the British wherever they landed. Where are your troops?”
R7nAw TIL Dr. Dolittle, the star of a series of lighthearted children's books about a guy who could talk to animals, was dreamt up by Hugh Lofting while in the gruesome carnage of the trenches of World War I, as a distraction, in letters to his children.
oBVDr TIL about Polyphonic Singing (ie, singing two or more different notes at the same time)
bea TIL that on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the British lost 57,000 soldiers. For comparison, the US only lost 58,000 during the ENTIRE vietnam war.
eQgE TIL the highest ranking and rarest military decoration in ancient Rome was a crown made of grass. It was awarded to officers whose actions saved an entire legion, or an entire army, and was made up of only grass, wheat, and flowers.