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TIL that a canine POW name Judy protected her fellow inmates from beatings by attacking the guards. Sentenced to death for bad behavior, Judy hid out in the jungles of Sumatra and supplemented her diet with snakes and monkeys. After the war she was awarded the Dicken Medal for bravery.

Ox47 TIL There is a 100-year-old woman still teaching math at her elementary school in Brooklyn
R59Ew TIL that putting two spaces after a period was once the standard and only started to fade out in the late 19th century
ZpG4G TIL there used to be an award for Typography in film
Me8gV TIL that an alternative name for the giraffe is "cameleopard", which comes from the Greek "kamēlopárdalis".
LkR6Z TIL that Ecuador uses the U. S. Dollar as its currency.