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TIL that cats are more vocal with humans than with other cats.
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TIL that many pirates in the early 1700’s in the Caribbean were escaped African slaves. By some accounts, 70 served with the famous Blackbeard
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TIL Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France, upon seeing the terms given to Germany at Versailles, declared “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.”
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TIL To understand a pun, your brain' right and left hemispheres have to work together, due to the unique structure of it
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TIL that the longest unbroken treaty relationship in U.S. history is with Morocco, with whom a treaty of peace and friendship was renegotiated in 1836, and remains in force today
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TIL In 1915, Kulbir Thapa was the first Nepalese Gurkha to receive the Victoria Cross. Thapa carried two wounded Gurkhas through No-Man’s-Land despite being wounded himself. When he went back a third time, German soldiers stopped firing and began clapping, allowing him to walk back to his own line.