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TIL brazil declared war on germany in WW1

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d8WdK TIL about the Doomsday Algorithm - a method to mentally calculate the day of the week given any date based on the fact that 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12 all occur on the same day of the week regardless of the year.
D7Rv TIL that older termites are used as suicide bombers.
v1mrr TIL eight grizzly bear/polar bear hybrids have been confirmed in the wild, all descending from the same female polar bear.
PYoNO TIL About Einstein's "Year of Miracles". In one year he published 3 papers that changed modern physics. The first about the particle theory of light (won him his Nobel Prize), the second led to people accepting the existence of atoms, and the third introduced special relativity (E=mc^2). He was 26.
7rKkO TIL that outside of the US, when an English speaking government "tables" a proposal, it means they are putting it up for consideration. In the US it means the exact opposite: putting it away, no longer considering it.