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TIL that in England during the First World War German Shepherd dogs were renamed ‘Alsatians’ owing to anti-German sentiment. It’s only relatively recently that the correct term 'German Shepherd’ has come back into common usage.

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LOwm TIL that in 2002 Iraqi vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan proposed that Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush should fight a duel to settle their differences.
1alZ8 TIL babies are born without proper knee caps. Instead they have cartilage on their knees that eventually hardens into bone. The lack of boney knee caps makes them more flexible during birth and while learning to crawl and walk.
R7pQ1 TIL that during a speech, the elderly former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth was accused by a man in the crowd of not being a female, to which she responded by exposing and shaking a withered breast at him and asked: "Want a suck?"
15PV TIL: John Adams defended the Redcoats Involved in the Boston Massacre despite the inclinations of the mob: famously saying, “Prisoners must be judged solely based upon the evidence produced against them in court and nothing else”
yQg6p TIL until 1871, officer commissions in the British Army could be bought and sold