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vd9K TIL that despite fighting against Nazi troops, with 17,000 dying in combat, Colonial French (Black) troops were not allowed to liberate Paris because of their skin colour. To ensure that a French regiment was allowed to liberated Paris, De Gaulle was forced to use Spanish (white) soldiers
X0Zoj TIL in 2000, Galoob Toys Inc. recalled about 8.9 million Sky Dancers flying dolls after receiving reports of injures which resulted from the doll striking adults and children, such as scratched corneas, broken teeth, a mild concussion, a broken rib, and facial lacerations that required stitches
jYMp TIL the swiss city of Basel has a special team of garbage detectives tasked with finding and fining people that dumped their trash illegally.
QJw6X TIL about Rubble Woman, who, in the aftermath of World War II, helped clear and reconstruct the bombed cities of Germany and Austria. With much of the male population dead or prisoners of war, this monumental task fell to a large degree on women.
p8WGp TIL: The Halifax Explosion - two ships collided in the Halifax Harbor, one of which was carrying munitions, resulting in one of the largest man-made explosions pre-1945. 2,000 killed, 9,000 injured, and nearly all buildings within a half-mile were destroyed