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N7Zl6 TIL Adidas refuses business partnerships with any organization that has ties to Scientology; including a contract clause for existing partnerships that states, “any organization or association which represents the principles of L. Ron Hubbard will be void."
69Rrm TIL The last mounted US cavalry charge was made in the Philippines on January 16, 1942. As the Japanese surged across the Batalan River, E and F Troops of the 26th drew up their horses in perfect formation. The 26th fought on horse and on foot, tossing gasoline-filled soda bottles at enemy tanks
rRpQ4 TIL that the invention of early bikes was prompted by a vulcanic eruption in Indonesia that led to a year without summer and the starvation of many horses.
VnnD TIL people of the British Virgin Islands are British and EU citizens but the official currency is USD, and they drive on the left side of the road but the cars are left hand drive
X0QyX TIL about Dickshooter, Idaho, which is named after pioneer settler Dick Shooter.