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TIL of Air Commodore Lionel Charlton, who resigned as the RAF Chief Staff Officer in Iraq because he objected to the bombing of Iraqi villages.

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DBxY TIL Sophie Walton, former slave girl and house servant to the Holiday family, taught a young Doc Holiday how to manipulate cards.
Ymav TIL in 2006 an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on Ebay. The starting price was $0.01AU and managed to reach $3000 before Ebay closed the auction.
o58o TIL in a dark room, it’s easier to see an object by not looking directly at it but rather next to it because of the distribution of cones and rods.
V8JD TIL that after the Greek War of Independence began, the Ottoman reaction was so virulent that the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church was publicly hanged in Constantinople, and a imam from the city of Smyrna was executed after he refused to issue a fatwa justifying the murder of Christians.
kJk4E TIL that Earth's magnetic poles reverse polarity every 2 million years, so that north becomes south and south becomes north.