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TIL that rubber bullets were invented by the British Ministry of Defence for use against rioters in the Troubles in Northern Ireland, first used there in 1970

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jN5YN TIL the crew on a WW2 Japanese cruiser annoyed the ship's officers by teaching a pet monkey to salute them
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ParL TIL Nazi scientists were the first to link smoking with lung cancer
69MlW TIL that 2000s WWF heel, Chris Harvard (Christopher Nowinski) is a Harvard graduated Neuroscientist. He co-founded Boston University's CTE center and wrote the 2006 book "Head Games" which sounded the alarm about CTE in the NFL
ANXb7 TIL that despite is Germanic name, Auschwitz was not only located in Poland, but is a former Polish Army barracks