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TIL of ‘Courage’, the Wedge-Tailed Eagle mascot of the Second Australian Calvary Regiment. After refusing to cooperate on a training exercise, Courage flew away for two days. Once located, he was found to have been AWOL, and was formally demoted from the rank of Corporal back to Trooper.

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BrDRD TIL of George Pullman, a 19th century industrialist who built a company town adjacent to his factory, established behavioral standards that workers had to meet to live in the area, and charged them high rents, even as wages decreased.
awLXL TIL about mass suicides; occurring as early as 206 BC in Astapa to as late as 1946 in Bali, Indonesia. These mass suicides, which can reach a toll of thousands, are a form of political protest of defeated groups against their aggressors and are regarded as an honorable act of heroism.
GANKg TIL about the Lickey Incline which is located south of Birmingham and has a 26.5% gradient
4XrDX TIL that Olivia De Havilland, who in 1939 starred in Gone with the Wind, is still alive. Born on the same day as the Battle of the Somme started, she is at 103 years old the oldest living Academy Awards winner.
EgVaw TIL actual meth can be prescribed for ADHD in the United States