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TIL that in the American Civil War, most battles had two names. The North generally named battles after natural features while the South named based on man-made landmarks/towns near battle. The Northern defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run was a Southern victory at the First Battle of Manassas.

VMLbQ TIL that in the movie Noah's Ark, filmed in 1928, the flood scene at the movie's climax was created by actually dumping 600,000 gallons of water onto the set. Three extras drowned and many suffered broken bones. This led to the introduction of safety regulations for movie stunts in 1929.
4PVN TIL That women’s shirts have buttons on the left because upper class women would be dressed by mostly right handed servants but men’s shirts button on the right because they would draw their swords with their right hand.
OovPL TIL: despite being an 11-time all-star, Olympic Dream Team member, and double hall of fame inductee, Charles Barkley rejected the idea of athletes as role models for youth, saying "A million guys can dunk a basketball in jail. Should they be role models?"
0dmjR TIL: In 2013, KFC filed a lawsuit against Hitler, which was a fried chicken stall in Thailand which was similar to KFC's logo, but with Hitler. It gained notoriety when food reviewer Andrew Spooner tweeted an image of the stall. Reportedly, the fried chicken was "pretty good".
e0w95 TIL Turkey has changed the scientific (Latin) names of three animals species because of references to Kurdistan and Armenia. The names were changed by the Turks because they believed the naming of these species was with "ill intentions against Turkish unity."