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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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v1VLL TIL a british woman was found dead in her flat with her TV and air conditioning still running. She had been dead for 2 years before her corpse was discovered.
0w7WM TIL that during the Povolzhye Famine of 1921-1922 in the USSR, the USA provided enough food to feed 10.5 million people a day, limiting the death toll to 5 million people
dWMj TIL in 1806 the fattest man in the world fought a bear in the streets of Leicester.
YgOG TIL that the bodyguard Walter H. Thompson saved Sir Winston Churchill over 20 times including from shrapnel during the Blitz, plots by the IRA, Indian nationalists, Arab nationalists, Nazi agents, Greek Communists and the deranged.
KYYGw TIL that Japanese Casette Tape manufacturers adviced to use an ordinary pencil to wind the tape if necessary. But they never checked if pencils in other parts of the world where of the same thickness. They are not.