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TIL that in the Civil War, Black US troops served as guards at POW camps for Confederate soldiers

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awBKN TIL that during WW2 there was a saying that "It's more likely for a snake to smoke a pipe, than for Brazil to go the front and fight", so when Brazil joined the war, their troops became known as "Cobras Fumantes", or "the Smoking Snakes".
l06N TIL it snows on Mars
RmjQ TIL: thatMatthew McConaughey’s brother named his son Miller Lyte and got free beer for a year.
wLpQ1 TIL: In 2015, HitchBOT, a cheerful hitchhiking robot which was dependent on strangers to reach its destination as an experiment, managed to travel across the Netherlands, Canada, and Germany. It was beheaded after two weeks in the US after it ventured into Philadelphia.
LQM9p TIL The scrolls from Edo period Japan depicting farting competitions were called He-Gassen