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TIL Left handed soldiers prepare and throw grenades upside down because of safety pin removal

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lAx5 TIL that crows (and other corvids) can remember individual human faces, hold grudges against us, and teach their crow brothers and sisters to dislike us too.
E1gYd TIL Many appliances have a ‘Sabbath Mode’ to allow them to be used by Shabbat-observant Jews on the Shabbat and Jewish holidays.
Y7QVB TIL about Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury. She was a powerful voice against the rise of fascism, a successful British politician, friend to Winston Churchill and the grandmother of actress Helena Bonham Carter.
nmar TIL Facekinis are growing in popularity in China. These full-face masks are worn while at the beach to protect one’s skin from the sun. Beauty comes at a cost since they make the wearer look like a luchadora.
RKJl TIL when US imposed sanctions against Russia’s space program the Russian Deputy Prime Minister tweeted “After reviewing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest that the United States deliver their astronauts to the ISS using a trampoline”