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TIL in 2008 an Australian special forces dog named Sarbi spent almost 14 months missing in action after disappearing during an ambush. Eventually an American soldier noticed her with a local man & confirmed she was a trained military dog by using voice commands. She was then reunited w/ her handlers

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6mXX TIL Only 2 countries in the world allow advertising prescription medication to consumers, the US and New Zealand
kW55 TIL that if a person is being crushed for hours (e.g. by earthquake debris), they should not be removed too quickly. Otherwise toxins from dying muscle may flood their bloodstream and kill them.
gVg4 TIL in 1971, Saddam Hussein imported 95,000 tons of grain treated with fungicidal mercury. The grain was intended for planting, but the Iraqis, unable to understand the English and Spanish warnings or the “skull and crossbones” image, baked it into bread. Hundreds died.
GYBpE TIL researchers discovered that applying a sonogram to a person's skull and stimulating specific brain regions can alter their mood. One researcher described applying it to his own head and later feeling like he had a martini. They hope to develop a sonogram-based device to treat mood disorders.
b61Wp TIL that in the 1980's South Africa secretly developed six nukes. Before handing over authority to the post apartheid government the nukes were dismantled making South Africa the first state in the world which voluntarily gave up all nuclear arms it had developed itself