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TIL there is a World Championship for Microsoft Excel.
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TIL As the Geneva convention rules that don't allow employing POWs in dangerous tasks; Denmark designated 1,000 Germans as "Surrendered Enemy Personnel" rather than POWs and forced them to work in mine clearance. In 6 weeks, 250 of them have died and were replaced by 1,200 more surrendered Germans.
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TIL Czar Nicholas II actually wanted to meet with protesters and negotiate solutions, but his ministers rejected that idea and sent in soldiers to shoot at the protesters, triggering the 1905 revolution.
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TIL that the UK & US' version of Dennis the Menace debuted on the same day, March 12th 1951
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TIL of Aleksa Zdravkovic, a Serbian soldier who carried the same loaf of bread baked by his mother for 8 years through the Balkan Wars and WWI as a good luck charm until he returned home to Pirot. It remains preserved in a museum to this day.
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TIL That from the late 1860s until the 1970s, several American cities had ugly laws making it illegal for persons with “unsightly or disgusting” disabilities to appear in public