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TIL there is a World Championship for Microsoft Excel.

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VMajZ 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.
BrQLk 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.
KONoQ TIL that the UK & US' version of Dennis the Menace debuted on the same day, March 12th 1951
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rry 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