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TIL There was a battle in WWII in which British and Indian troops fought in daily hand-to-hand combat for weeks against the Japanese in an Indian government official's tennis court.

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x604B TIL that household adventure brands such as The North Face, Timberland, Vans, Icebreaker, Altra plus a few others all belong to the same company VF Corporation.
58Mr TIL that the original lyric in the Rolling Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil was “I shouted out ‘Who killed Kennedy?’ This had to be changed to "I shouted out 'Who killed the Kennedys?’” after RFK was assassinated while the song was being recorded.
7Rlx TIL that the DCIM folder in your camera stands for “Digital Camera IMages”.
6EOZZ TIL that the unknown soldier for Vietnam was identified and later recovered and returned to his family after 26 years.
AD7Qg TIL of the practice of "Fox Tossing", a once popular sport involving catapulting a live fox (or a badger or a hare or a wolf or whatever) as high as possible and dodging it as it falls.