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TIL there are currently over 20 countries at war

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DBnv TIL Royal eunuchs in Korea were castrated by applying human feces to the testicles, and having a dog bite them off.
VMRa8 TIL, Nadezhda Durova (1783-1866), daughter of a Russian Army Officer, disguised herself as a man, serving in a Cavalry Regiment during the Napoleonic Wars. She was the first recorded Female Officer in the Russian army, and was awarded the Cross of St George for bravery under fire.
Z8XwB TIL of the Kudirka Incident: a Soviet sailor swam from his ship and attempted to defect with the American Coast Guard. Not knowing the protocol for granting asylum, the Coast Guard eventually allowed the Soviets onto their vessel, where they arrested him and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
GYVOJ TIL a bully who terrorized the town, commiting a number of varying crimes including attempted murder, was shot dead in front of 40+ people yet nobody “saw a thing.”
e7Ek TIL That Ethiopia sent a battalion of soldiers to the Korean War. At the end of the conflict, they were the only contingent with no prisoners in North Korea, because no Ethiopian ever surrendered.