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TIL a US Army pack mule that was shipped to Asia during WWII was captured by Americans six years later during the Korean War. The mule likely served in three different wars (WWII, Chinese Civil War, Korean War) and for three different armies (US, Nat. Chinese, Communist Chinese).

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nWNvY TIL Madagascar had pygmy hippopotamuses that went extinct likely within the last thousand yeas. They may have survived as late as a 1976.
AmPa TIL that when Tesla moved to Colorado to work on artificial lightning, thunder from one experiment was heard 15 miles away, people saw sparks jumping from their feet to the ground, butterflies were swirling in circles with blue halos around their wings and the whole town was left in the dark.
yQbWp TIL Shavarsh Karapetyan is a retired Armenian swimmer. In 1976, after completing his daily 20-km run, he came upon an accident scene where a trollybus had fallen into a reservoir. Karapetyan dived 10 meters into the water and pulled 46 people out of the bus, 20 of whom survived.
peDb TIL The writers of Rugrats were huge fans of Doctor Who, and actually based Tommy off of the Doctor, as a charismatic and whimsical leading character. Along with his trusty screwdriver!
epyd6 TIL about the Olympus Scandal centering around Japanese camera maker Olympus hiding massive investment losses totaling $1.7 billion through an elaborate accounting fraud that lasted for at least 13 years before being exposed in 2011