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TIL that Germany's two largest private emergency responders, the "Malteser" and the "Johanniter", used to be the crusader knights' field doctors in Jerusalem

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yVJZX TIL Mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy tutored Charles X's grandson but was not very successful in teaching the prince. When questioned by Cauchy on a problem in descriptive geometry, the prince was confused and hesitant, causing Cauchy to scream
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woMGM Til there’s weird ass videos like this on YouTube shorts 😭
KOl7J TIL that in 1942, the HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, a Dutch minesweeper based in the Netherlands East Indies, successfully disguised itself as a tropical island for several weeks in order to evade Japanese patrols, while withdrawing towards Australia after Allied setbacks in the region during the war.
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