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TIL In 1935, US Supreme Court honored Prophet Muhammad as one of the Greatest Lawgivers of the world.

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lZna TIL the township of Thierville, France suffered no losses in country’s last five wars: WW1, the Franco-Prussian War, WW2, the First Indochina War, and the Algerian War. All the soldiers who took part in these wars returned home.
6E1bm TIL about Phantom vibration syndrome other AKA fauxcellarm and phonetom
mxOnM TIL when a family cat died in ancient Egypt, family members would mourn by shaving off their eyebrows and would continue mourning until they grew back.
MK98 TIL in Sept 1940 the UK sent the US documents for improved radar, the jet engine, feasibility of an atomic bomb, rocket designs, plastic explosives & more; tech that would lead to victory, the nuclear age, jet age & said to be the “most valuable cargo ever brought to our shores”; in a single trunk.
BrdaK TIL of the "Stormtrooper Effect" to describe how the hero shoots more accurately as he becomes outnumbered or increasingly desperate. Meanwhile villains miss more shots as they outnumber the hero.