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TIL that US Army working dogs (MWDs) “are one rank higher than that of their handler, so that they are accorded the respect due to them”

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kJ6Q4 TIL of the HMS Black Joke, a former slave ship captured and given to the British West Africa squadron. Over a 5 year career she captured dozens of slave ships and freed thousands of African slaves bound for the Western Hemisphere.
vb9L TIL that the ‘technologically advanced’ South Koreans are forced (by law) to use Internet Explorer to shop and bank online.
wo8RY TIL A ‘lost world’ of early microbes thrived one billion years ago which give clues to a lost world of primitive microbes that once may have populated the world’s oceans and may have eventually given rise to modern plants and animals.
B5gL TIL A 2-year study that linked Ecstasy to Parkinsons was retracted from the journal Science after the authors realized they had accidentally used meth instead.
EJJX TIL the Vikings had swords marked with “Ulfbehrt” using high carbon “crucible steel” not made again until the Industrial Revolution, 800 years later. Maker history is yet unknown.