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TIL Cats were often mascots on Navy ships in WWII. They kept the rodent population down and improved morale for the crew!

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1all7 TIL that the highest academic grade in most Russian exams is 5. When a student submits their paper with no questions answered, they may get 2 out of 5 instead of a zero grade for at least showing up and trying to solve the exam questions
x6AOg TIL that there's an annual soccer competition, called the Muratti Vase, inaugurated in 1905, between teams representing the Channel Islands of Alderney, Guernsey and Jersey. Jersey won it 57 times, Guernsey 46 times and Alderney just once in 1920 and hasn't been to a final in almost 90 years
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