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TIL That it is illegal in South Carolina to jeer at the Confederate States of America flag.

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MeRMK TIL Casualty or ‘Mercy’ dogs were vital in World War One. They carried supplies so wounded soldiers could help themselves to supplies and tend to their own wounds, whilst other more gravely wounded soldiers would seek the company of a Mercy dog to wait with them whilst they died.
oBLER TIL Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes franchise, once investigated a real murder and helped to exonerate an innocent man
VBQQB TIL about Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT). Where fecal matter from a healthy donor is introduced into a patient’s GI tract. It helps to restore healthy bacteria in the lower intestine and controls the infection Clostridium difficile (C. diff)
p0g4 TIL Chrysippus, an ancient Athenian philosopher, died from laughing at one of his own jokes.
1aZlD TIL that the Italian city of Monza banned goldfish in bowls because the shape of the bowl gives the fish "a distorted sense of reality"