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TIL this high five was invented less than 50 years ago in 1977

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neLB TIL that one of Australia’s most decorated snipers was initially barred from joining the Army during WW1 because of his race. He was only accepted after a recruitment officer reclassified him as “White.”
BXJx TIL that L. Ron Hubbard was relieved of command of his U.S. Navy ship for accidentally attacking Mexico. His ship later burst into flames and sank.
neeQB Shopkeeper removing the word, ‘Italian’ from the sign above his restaurant in Soho, London during WW II, after anti-Italian riots throughout Britain.
5J1n TIL a priest imprisoned in Auschwitz for aiding Jews volunteered to die in a stranger’s place. He lived for 2 weeks without food or water before being given a lethal injection.
x4O0 TIL that domestic cats instinctively don’t want to drink from the water bowl next to their food, and therefore seek it out first elsewhere in the house, because in the wild any water next to their kill might be contaminated.