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TIL Harry Redknapp is Frank Lampards uncle

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N7R7Q TIL under the Geneva conventions Military surgeons are required to treat wounded enemy soldiers equal to allied troops
DQwLj TIL that in France, bars can’t have a Happy Hour without also making non-alcoholic drinks cheaper
kOp0g TIL that the last German Kaiser, Wilhelm II (born 1859), lived to see the rise of Hitler and the first two years of WW2, dying in 1941. When Hitler took Paris, he wrote a telegram, writing "Congratulations, you have won using my troops."
l78or TIL There was so much shit in the streets of 14th century Paris that multiple roads had names which originated from the french word for shit, "merde": rue Merdeux, rue Merdelet, rue Merdusson, rue des Merdons, and rue Merdiere. There was also a rue de Pipi, or "Urine Street".
woYPM TIL there are towns in Europe shaped like star; The town of Palmanova, Italy, was built as a star fort by the Venetian Republic in 1593.