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TIL that on 17th November 1810, Sweden declared war on the United Kingdom. During two years of Anglo-Swedish War, no battles ever took place and not a single person died

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R57Na TIL that in 1999 a British man, angered at being charged £20 for going £10 overdrawn, legally changed his name to "Yorkshire Bank plc are Fascist Bastards" just to receive a return cheque in that name to settle the account.
kBMm TIL in 1968 Japan, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car hadbeen riggedwith a bomb. The cop got under the car to defuse the device. Everybody ran when the car started to smoke. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
d8Bnr TIL: Paris had a pneumatic post system, where you could send your mail through tubes until 1984!
oZAR TIL Audie Murphy, when asked after the war why he had seized the machine gun of a burning M10 tank destroyer and taken on an entire company of German infantry, he replied simply, “They were killing my friends.”
En4o TIL A south pacific island created a religion worshiping American soldiers who gave gifts of technology during WWII. They still pray for their return today.