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TIL in the year 1840, 95 years before the founding of AA, there was a group called The Washingtonians who believed in the power of one alcoholic helping another alcoholic recover. At its peak, the group had more than 600,000 members but drifted from its primary purpose and entirely dissapeared.

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KYrJ9 TIL in 1906 con man Wilhelm Voigt posed as a Prussian military officer and took a group of troops by train to the town of Köpenick, arresting the mayor and stealing 4000 German marks. He was viewed as a folk hero and the Kaiser later pardoned him. A statue of him stands outside the city hall.
AxZ4 TIL donning the enemy uniform during a time to war to conduct espionage or sabotage is not illegal as it is considered a “ruse of war” however donning the enemy uniform to conduct combat and assassination is a war crime.
nWxEb TIL that lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.
9YjmQ TIL that people of the Yanomami tribe do not generally address eachother by their names. It is considered an insult to call a man by his name by his public - in fact, the Yanomami verb "to name" is a synonym of "to insult".
xV8Wk TIL After the scene where Margot Robbie has sex with Leonardo DiCaprio on a pile of money in 'Wolf of Wall Street', Robbie ended the scene with her back covered in paper cuts from the fake money they used