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TIL Austria's Coat of Arms is the last to feature a hammer and sickle in Europe

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p6db TIL that a Greek veteran, Stamatis Moraitis was diagnosed with cancer and was told he only had 6 months to live. 10 years later, he went back to doctors to tell them he was still alive, only to discover that all of the doctors who had diagnosed him were dead.
bQyp TIL of Insular Dwarfism, the tendency for small species to become larger and large species to become smaller upon being moved to an island.
p8Yv4 TIL the US Army staged a fake war in 1940-41 to test military tactics and doctrine
BrV0K TIL: A book created by nazi doctors by means of dissecting thousands of executed prisoners is still used today as one of the most detailed medical books for surgeons. It’s quoted as being one of the great moral enigmas
YpGkv TIL A map needs only four colors to ensure that regions with common borders do not have the same color.