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TIL Ethiopia uses a different calendar. They have 13 months, the last month being either five or six days. And, it's still 2014 there.

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5Yjv9 TIL of US Army Major General Peter Conover Hains, the only Civil War officer to see duty in World War I
N7LE TIL that from World War II and every U.S. conflict since, only four military chaplains have been awarded the Medal of Honor – all Catholic priests, who refused to abandon wounded men in combat.
PZ4e TIL Peter O'Toole found his camel saddle uncomfortable while filming Lawrence of Arabia, so he put a piece of foam rubber under it. The film’s Bedouin extras saw this and copied it, and today the practice has spread to become Bedouin tradition. They call O’Toole “Father of the Sponge”.
4X7p5 TIL that according to cognitive dissonance theory, the "Ben Franklin effect" means that whether you choose to treat someone well or not, you will devise a reason for why they deserved it, either way.
Wk058 TIL that "Live Aid", the benefit concert held for the Ethiopian famine in 1985, (while well intended) actually gave ~£150 million to the Ethiopian Dictatorship. They used the money to mostly buy weapons from the Soviet Union and further fueled their civil war.