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TIL that Irishwoman Christian Davies was the first woman to be admitted to the British Army retirement home Royal Hospital Chelsea in 1717, after serving in the British Army from 1693 to 1706 while disguised as a man

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m18MY TIL that 65% of cancer survivors surveyed by war on cancer said that they had been ghosted by friends or family after their diagnosis.
yQWll TIL that a stolen Degas painting worth 800,000 euros was found inside of a suitcase in a bus near Paris, during a random search by customs officials. It had been stolen in 2009. None of the passengers admitted to owning it and nobody was arrested.
ebAE TIL Because of its fierce resistance to British occupation in the Revolutionary War, British commander Lord Cornwallis referred to Charlotte, NC as “a veritable hornet’s nest of rebellion”. This is how the Charlotte Hornets basketball team got its name.
paN4 TIL it’s a mystery why so many bird and dinosaur fossils exhibit a ‘death pose’ - the characteristic posture consisting of head thrown back, tail extended, and mouth wide open
nRr TIL that in 1966, the US lost a hydrogen bomb in the Mediterranean Sea, and struggled to find it. Finally, a Spanish fisherman helped them find it, and asked for the $20 million finder’s reward that the US owed according to law.