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TIL that Singapore and Brunei currency can be use in each other country

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9Kvr TIL that 30 british officers tried to escape POW camp “Castle Colditz” (Oflag IV-C) by digging a tunnel. Because they read the compass wrong, they landed in the wine cellar of a german colonel. There they drank 137 bottles of wine, filled them with their urine and placed them back.
OGgpY TIL of Reginald Hamilton Earnshaw, believed to have been the youngest person in the British services to die in World War II at just 14 years old.
ZpdRa TIL mūmiyā, a type of resin/bitumen used to treat diseases in traditional Islamic medicine, was transliterated as “mumia” in Western Europe during medieval times, which misled Europeans to think it was related to mummies and made them start consuming/trafficking human mummies from Egypt into Europe
BAyr TIL In 2006, a German rabbit farmer sent 12 giant rabbits (the size of dogs) to North Korea for the purpose of a breeding program, but he refused to send more after realizing that officials might have eaten the rabbits instead of breeding them.