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TIL that during World War II, a Great Dane named Juliana was awarded two Blue Cross medals for extinguishing an incendiary bomb by urinating on it.

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69Vel TIL that in 1910 Pablo Picasso was put on trial for stealing the Mona Lisa. He did not steal it.
awrNJ TIL that Nerf stands for, Non-Expanding Recreational Foam.
wLAJW TIL the Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) is a small semiaquatic, globally threatened mammal related to moles and shrews which inhabits Spain, Portugal, Andorra and the French Pyrenees. The desman has webbed feet and a very sensitive and elongated nose which it uses to find its invertebrate prey.
QJrw9 TIL that referring to a bathroom or water closet as a Crapper, stems from Thomas Crapper. Thomas was an English businessman and plumber that made significant improvements to toilet design. He held 3 toilet patents and we still use most of them today.
d80LB TIL To treat a malaria outbreak in Borneo, the WHO used DDT to kill mosquitoes. DDT killed wasps which were eating thatch-eating caterpillars who were eaten by geckoes & eaten by cats, who died, which led to rats, plague, & typhus. WHO had to parachute 145,000 cats into the area to kill the rats.