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TIL New Zealand was the last Navy in the world to stop the traditional midday rum ration.

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vPPBD TIL of Mary Jane Seacole, a British -Jamaican nurse and businesswoman who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War arguably practicing nursing hygiene before Florence Nightingale
ZplmQ TIL on Station Island in Ireland, St. Patrick was reputed to have found a cave that was a literal entrance into Purgatory. For hundreds of years, pilgrims travelled to the island and would spend the night in the cave, many of whom later emerged with fantastical tales of what they'd seen inside.
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