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TIL history shows that between 1480 and 1913, female leaders in Europe were 27% more likely to wage war than men.

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A6nl TIL King Tut had a club foot, feminine hips, an overbite. He had Kohler’s disease. DNA determine that Pharaoh’s parents were undoubtedly brother and sister.
EgQm0 TIL in World War II several U.S railroad companies sponsored military “railway battalions” to help with the war effort. Company bosses became military officers and 1000’s of American railroad employees joined the effort throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
5w08 TIL that due to their small brains koalas are unable to perform complex, unfamiliar tasks such as eat leaves off of flat surfaces.
YpEyG TIL that because the two major seafaring provinces of the Netherlands in its Golden Age were Holland and Zeeland, the Dutch explorers originally named the largest landmass of Oceania Nieuw Holland (now Australia) and the two islands to the southeast Nieuw Zeeland (now New Zealand)
bXW7 TIL that in 2007, a Tennessee man named Philip Workman, on Death Row requested that instead of a last meal, a pizza be donated to a local homeless person. The request was denied.