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TIL, in WWI dogs, horse, mules and donkeys all wore gas masks.

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yV8Dw TIL: the world’s largest snowflake was recorded in Montana in 1887? It measured 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick
QJ81E TIL that the entomologist Justin O. Schmidt created the ''Schmidt sting pain index''. This scale rates the pain from stings of ants, wasps and bees. While getting stung by a warrior wasp, he told to himself: ''Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?''.
LYkm TIL Black Americans serving in WWII under the French were treated with respect. However it concerned the US military so much it led to a directive stating: They MUST NOT eat with them, seek to talk, meet with, nor should they commend the black troops, particularly in the presence of white Americans.
xje0 TIL Vin Diesel is a huge Dungeons and Dragons fan, having played for more than 20 years. So much so that he even wrote the forward to Thirty Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons and Dragons.
jNDJj TIL of the Falcon Sex Hat, a hat that allows a falcon to have sex with a breeders head to collect the semen.