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TIL the owner of a DC bar, Kamal Jahanbein, shuts his business down for one month each year to go build schools in impoverished villages, and has been doing it since 1994.

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WQVY TIL that during WW2, Italy delivered an ultimatum to Greece demanding they accept occupation. The Greeks replied with “Then it is war”. In the ensuing fight, the outgunned Greeks put Italy on the defensive, forcing Germany to intervene, diverting resources from the upcoming invasion of the USSR.
RXnj TIL 10% of those conscripted in the UK in WWII were sent to serve not on the battlefield, but in the coal mines that powered the war machine. Some of these soldiers were not released from service until two years after the war ended. They were not formally recognized for their contribution until 1995
0wm75 TIL that fishers, a member of the weasel family, are one of the few predators that seek out and kill porcupines and have been documented routinely preying on lynxes, being the primary cause of lynx mortality in the wild.
yQxdV TIL that Yellow River (Huang He) in China had shifted its course in 1855 when the river breaches its northern levees, causing the river mouth to be shifted hundreds of kilometres, from Yellow Sea south of Shandong Peninsula, to Bohai Sea, north of Shandong Peninsula.
eDDL TIL the first ‘mooning’ in recorded history was 66 AD, where a Roman soldier mooned Jewish pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem, causing a riot, an over-response by the Roman military, and the death of thousands