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TIL Audi and BMW use emu feathers to clean the cars before applying paint; Audi imports feathers from Australia but BMW has its own emu farm in Bavaria

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nv7o TIL that the French held out at Fort Vaux against crushing German attacks for 3 days with no water. The commander sent requests for aid, the last one saying “This is my last pigeon”. The pigeon was awarded France’s highest military honour.
epMvJ TIL 92% of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels have skull malformations that squish part of their brain into their spinal column.
ElO0 TIL that an English POW in WWI was granted permission to visit his dying mother and voluntarily returned a week later.
9wNNX TIL about the first black NYPD officer Sam Battle, who rose through the ranks to be a Sergeant then Lieutenant then Parole Commissioner despite institutional racism and even death threats, and also held the record of the largest baby born in North Carolina...at 16 pounds.
QZeE TIL that a woman in France sued her husband and won $15,000 for not giving her enough sex during their marriage.