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TIL pouring water on your head cools you down more effectively than drinking

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BrPbe TIL Although the Red Baron was their enemy the British respect for him was such that upon his death he was buried with full military honours by No.3 Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps who had recovered his body in Northern France.
eXrE TIL A few decades ago, everyone ate a strain of banana called the Gros Michel. Its skin was more slippery than the Cavendish, the banana that we eat today, which is the reason why banana peels have been such a prominent cartoon gag.
vPp7B TIL a sculpture commemorating "Gangnam Style" was erected in the eponymous district in Seoul. It consists of two giant hands in the horse-riding gesture from the music video, and plays the song when people stand under it.
dle7 TIL the man who first artificially cloned a fish was later forced to give up his research and become a janitor by the Chinese government during the Cultural Revolution.
xga0 TIL of the HNLMS Abraham Crijnnsen, a dutch warship that evaded the Japanese during world war 2 by planting trees all around the ship and sailing close to islands. So the Japanese wouldn’t think it was an enemy ship but part of an island. The ship was the only one of the fleet to return.