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TIL: It is considered a war crime to kill, injure or capture an enemy by tricking them by pretending to be injured.

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Y7BYZ TIL that the word RATIO is semantically related to the word RATIOnal, so an irRATIOnal number is a number that cannot be expressed as a RATIO of two integers. (Sorry for the reworded repost. My last post had the etymology wrong, but apparently it's worth reposting because it helped a lot of people!)
d8emQ TIL the Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" in reference to Molotov's propaganda broadcasts. When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with the food".
5DMr TIL African American soldiers in World War I served under the French military because white American soldiers refused to perform with them. Many African Americans moved to France after the war because they were treated better in that country.
xr5 TIL part of Pink Floyd’s song “Keep Talking” came from Stephen Hawking’s quote: For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk….
grE6D TIL the Greenbrier Ghost led to the conviction of a murderer in West Virginia