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KYOG4 TIL 20% of the population of the Six Nations tribes fought in WW2. The Choctaw language baffled German codebreakers, and Iroquois, who had officially declared war during WW1 and never made peace, officially declared war on Germany again during WW2.
01Pp TIL That the Soviet Union, and now Russia, have a fail-deadly system which automatically launches a full scale nuclear attack in the event that authoritative command is incapacitated. It uses light, seismic, radioactive, and overpressure systems to activate the launch. It is still in use today.
R5Pll TIL that the founder of Lipton Tea, Sir Thomas Lipton, was a lifelong bachelor who had a secret relationship with his shop assistant, William Love
E1p80 TIL about the Freedom House Ambulance Service, how two young Black men from Pittsburgh (the “Unemployables”) became two of the world’s first paramedics. They operated unofficially and as volunteers, and became the model for all EMS. Later, they were entirely forgotten.
VM5k8 TIL a medical fetish company donated medical scrubs to a UK hospital after requests by UK National Health Service reps. The company bills itself as “the only online store 100% dedicated to Medical Fetish, Kink and Roleplay” with “genuine medical grade items.”