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TIL Peter Cushing - Grand Moff Tarkin of Star Wars fame - was an avid wargamer and played "Little Wars" by H.G. Wells

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Br0wW TIL that a dog in China refused to leave his dead owner’s graveside. To the extent that he went for 7 days without food. He had been his owners’ sole companion. The villagers planned to build a kennel for him and bring him food and water.
DmVv TIL Jeep mass produced a fully electric delivery vehicle for the USPS in 1974.
4Ke6 TIL there are several cases of foreign women visiting Dubai for business, being raped, and then being jailed when they report the rape.
oB9KE TIL that Oxford University tradition is that all students wear a carnation as well as academic dress to their exams. The colour of the carnation is white for the first exam, red for the last and pink for each one in between.
EggJV TIL: That yellow fever is named that because the skin turns yellow as the liver shuts down. The Spanish also named the fever after a symptom of the disease: Vomito Negro (Black Vomit)