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TIL Hіtӏer supplied Ethiopia with weapons and ammunition during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War

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BrmOK TIL there are (wild) baboons who raise and keep dogs as part of their tribes
5Y678 TIL of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of King Henry VII. She had her son at just 13 years old after marrying Edmund Tudor, who was 12 years her senior. He died of the plague when she was seven months pregnant. Since she was so young, the birth was extremely difficult.
lwg7 TIL of Sgt Earl Hale. While taking six SS officers prisoner, one slashed Hale’s throat. He survived and remained in the European Theater. Later, General Patton himself would berate him for being out of uniform until he produced a doctor’s note excusing him from wearing the required tie.
Y7aRr TIL during Prohibition in the United States President Warren G. Harding would host whiskey-fueled poker games in the White House with a group he referred to as his "Poker Cabinet."
XEdP8 TIL that mucus gets its green color from an enzyme white blood cells use to make a corrosive chemical called hypochlorite to dissolve bacteria. Hypochlorite is the same chemical used in household bleach.