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TIL the average Black American has roughly 1/4 European ancestry

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ne10P TIL of Just Nuisance, the only dog ever to be officially enlisted in the Royal Navy. He never went to sea but would accompany sailors on train journeys and escorted them back to base when the pubs closed. He died in 1944 at the age of 7 and was buried with full military honours.
ADAdx TIL of the Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice, a public monument in London commemorating ordinary people who died saving the lives of others and who might otherwise have been forgotten.
0dP71 TIL The Olympics don't actually give any official ranking by country, merely a gold medal "ordering"
R7KjQ TIL there was a general strike in Seattle in 1919 that lasted for six days, which supposedly resulted in "creating the first Red Scare" in America
wor8J TIL Adolf Hitler was a cartoonist for the army newspaper during World War I