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TIL the Swedish military goes by mission command rather than chain of command. Meaning orders & rules can be ignored if they interfere with objectives. This led to some friction in Bosnia as Nordbat 2 would ignore UNs rules of engagement to obtain the primary objective of preserving civilian lives.

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nWGwB TIL while filming Metropolis (1927) they would often end up with more children in the evening than in the morning. Coming from the poorest areas of Berlin, the children would sneak onto set or climb over the fence to experience the warm rooms, games, toys, cocoa, cake, and regular meals
oro TIL of a seeing-eye goose that leads around a blind dog.
5Ydnn TIL that a "macaroni", as mentioned in Yankee Doodle, refers to a 1700s trend wherein some men would dress up in ridiculously over the top clothing and speak in a gender-ambiguous manner. The name came from young men who had toured Italy referring to fashionable things as "very macaroni".
W7kRB TIL of the Guangxi Massacre, an event during the Cultural Revolution with reports of “mass cannibalism.” Revolutionaries ate hundreds of Chinese citizens, not because of famine or economic reasons, but out of political hatred and rituals. Many of these cannibals (1966 - 1976) are still alive today.
AD6Yl TIL that CNN pays airports to show news on their TVs. It's not normal CNN but a special version that excludes any stories about plane crashes.