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TIL There are no more WW1 veterans left.

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0y6j TIL one of the world’s fastest clappers can clap up to 14 times per second. His world record is 721 claps in one minute. This is a video of him demonstrating his ability.
R7nrj TIL that the Canadian flag was created because Egypt rejected Canada as a peacekeeping country.
R9D1 TIL that a Gurkha Soldier of the Indian Army single handedly fought off 40 armed bandits with his knife killing 3 and injuring 8 to save a girl from getting raped during a train robbery in India.
BOXr TIL The US Army Special Forces have a training exercise where they have to liberate a fake country called “Pineland” in the style of a LARP. Since the exercise is based within an actual town, actual civilians are often called upon to preform roles such as shopkeepers or torturers.
pY4y8 TIL: 1 in 5 German parents regrets having children and would prefer to live their life without them.