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TIL: How dogs barks in different languages. “woke woke”

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9wdWD TIL Bed Rest has no proven benefit for any condition, beyond that imposed by symptoms
b9aLQ TIL The Boer War Siege of Mafeking, the British held out with no artillery against a numerically superior force. They hid their numbers by shifting units around in the trenches, and dressing as women to do civilian work. They recommissioned century old guns and improvised an armored train.
1gp7 TIL that the band Muse won a 500,000 Euro lawsuit against Nestle, then donated 100% of the proceeds to charity.
9YJg7 TIL the 1926 Ohio/Indiana border town of College Corner had a high school football team that went 30-2, the team was made up of Miami University football players
JwaV TIL that African soldiers fighting against the Japanese in Burma during WWII appropriated and manipulated the rumors that they were cannibals. To demonstrate this, soldiers pretended to eat the ‘meat’ of fallen soldiers so that remaining survivors would flee in fear