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TIL that during WW1, French commander Joseph Joffre employed professional car racer Georges Boillot to drive him around the conflict zone at blazing speeds.

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WkGNd TIL cows are the female animal once they have had a baby calf. Heifers are cows that haven't had a baby yet. Bulls are the males capable of mating and steers are bulls that have been castrated (only removing testicles). The general descriptor for the species as a whole is "cattle"
e06A4 TIL that, to avoid traumatic brain injury, woodpecker's toungues wrap around their skulls in a small empty cavity, which helps to cushion the blows.
VBoOQ TIL That when Jeanette Rankin took her seat as Montana's Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives in 1917, she became the first woman ever elected to sit in a national parliament. To date, she is also the only woman ever elected to represent Montana in Congress.
awBDA TIL that Ohio and Michigan "went to war" in 1835 in a border dispute called the Toledo War. No one was killed, but one man got stabbed.
gm5L TIL tuberculosis wiped out 50% of the males in a troop of savanna baboons after they consumed tainted meat. The more aggressive males died, leaving their less aggressive peers to create and pass down a uniquely unaggressive culture.