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TIL that one of the first American spies was a women during the Revolutionary War. To this day, her identity is not known and is referred to only as Agent 355.

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e0KKD TIL that there is a beer named after the Austrian village of Fucking. It is named Fucking Hell and was originally denied a trademark.
L1xP TIL The first woman to break the sound barrier was an american WWII veteran. Her own government denied her use of a plane, so she asked the Canadian military. They loaned her a plane plus 16 crew AND shipped them to California so she could break the record even though she wasn’t a citizen.
E10xP TIL Queen Elizabeth II still has a 'Champion' for purposes of trial by combat and it's Francis John Fane Marmion Dymoke, a 65-year-old chartered accountant.
4X0GN Today I learned about the discovery of viruses (bacteriophages) that kill bacteria and how they were experimenting with them as a treatment before the discovery of penicillin.
AeYB TIL that on July 1, 2016 volunteers dressed as World War I soldiers appeared across the UK as part of Battle of the Somme commemorations. The ‘soldiers’ silently handed cards to passers by, each bearing the name of a soldier who died at the Somme on 1st July 1916.