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TIL of Commando the war pigeon, who conducted over 90 missions in German-occupied France. He was awarded the Dickin Medal, the highest honour for an animal.

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grKK9 TIL that former President of Liberia Charles King has been awarded the Guinness World Record for the most fraudulent election in history. In the 1927 election, he secured victory with 234,000 votes in a country with a population of only 15,000.
p8jK8 TIL The inventor of frontal lobotomy won a Nobel Prize.
8a10P TIL that the Kodak company manufactured hand grenades in the later years of WWII, and they were even used in the invasion of Normandy. The stock remaining after WWII was ordered to be destroyed because the grenades would explode prematurely, injuring American soldiers.
gkoy TIL that, following the Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland, the British home secretary, Reginald Maudling, told the House of Commons that British paratroopers had killed 13 civilians in self-defense. Bernadette McAliskey, a Northern Irish MP, walked across the floor and slapped his face.
m186y TIL about Jeanna Geise, the first known survivor of rabies, which was thought to be 100% fatal