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TIL the last successful bayonet charge was in 2011 by the British Army against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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v1rAB TIL Gorillas are vegans – the only lapse is the occasional ant – eating leaves, flowers, shoots and stems. A big male needs to consume 75lb of food a day, so they spend much of their time grazing, with the occasional downtime for naps. Their lives are ‘a picnic party with no beginning and no end’
VM74Z TIL that in 1795 the Dutch navy was defeated near the island of Texel when the French army found out they were stuck in ice. So the French army simply rode up to them on horseback and the Dutch were forced to surrender.
E1Y6o TIL that the fifth oldest person in history Jamaican Violet Brown who had lived to 115 years had a son who was 97 years old who was still alive when she was. Making him the oldest person ever with a parent. They both died in 2017.
PYxwO TIL In Okinawa, Japan, a place where the average life expectancy for women is around 90, the oldest in the world, people form a kind of social network called a moai — a group of five friends who offer social, logistic, emotional and even financial support for a lifetime.
MnyK TIL two percent of people carry an unusual form of a specific gene (ABCC11) that means their armpits never smell.