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TIL that during the Serbo-Bulgarian war in 1885, Serbia signed a one day armistice in order to allow Red Cross aid convoys to pass through Serbia into Bulgaria who had no medical corps. Serbia also donated some of their own supplies to Bulgaria.

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Lk5VZ TIL producer Lee Mendelson was working on a Peanuts special when—while driving over the Golden Gate Bridge—Vince Guaraldi's Cast Your Fate To The Wind came on the radio. He was so moved, he immediately booked lunch with Guaraldi & asked him to score the music for A Charlie Brown Christmas.
rRDAW TIL that James McCormick sold the ADE 651, a fake ‘bomb detector’, all over the world (specifically Iraq) by purchasing novelty golf ball detectors for less than $20 and reselling it for $5000 each. His scam has cost lives and the ‘bomb detectors’ are probably still in use today.
e8DD TIL in a letter called the Ashtiname, Muhammad called on followers of Islam to protect Christians “in any place they may dwell.” Violators would be regarded as having “despised [God’s] Religion, and made himself deserving of His Curse, whether he is a Sultan or any other believer of Islam.”
Lkxe0 TIL Sir Frederick Banting, the Nobel-Prize-winning discoverer of insulin, created the first private biological weapon research centre in 1940. Soon afterwards, the US government was also pressed to perform such research by their British allies who feared a German attack with biological weapons.
xVn50 TIL that none of the actors portraying the Jamaican bobsled team in the movie ‘Cool Runnings’ were originally from Jamaica! ????????