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TIL Indian Soldiers were abandoned to die as per the official orders at Dunkirk but Colonel Ashdown of The Royal Indian Army Service Corps disobeyed the order and saved the Indian Soldiers for which he was court martialled.

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JY0V TIL in Germany they teach kids how to hide a boner…on TV!
loJVr TIL Mapmakers deliberately put slight mistakes in their maps (fake streets, towns) so they can tell when someone copies them. They are called map traps.
Oo5J7 TIL In 1999, a company in Japan installed vending machines selling live kabutomushi (horned beetles) so that children in cities away from the beetles' natural habitat could collect them as pets. The machines were so popular they sold out each day.
78loP TIL the largest known Prime Number is 2^82,589,933− 1. It contains 24,862,048 digits, and a search for a potential larger Prime is ongoing.
QJ1a TIL the sequel to “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” involves Wonka and the Buckets narrowly escaping death at the hands(?) of vicious aliens in a government-funded space hotel and traveling into Hell (AKA Minusland) to save Grandma Georgina.