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TIL Ngerulmud, Palau is the least populous national capital in the world, with a population less than half of that of the Vatican.

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e0jb5 TIL After the Battle of Aspern-Essling (1809), the surgeon of the Napoleonic Army Larrey, lacking salt, seasoned a horse meat bouillon for the wounded under his care with gunpowder. It was also used for sterilization in ships when there was no alcohol.
PYr4e TIL that "zombies" first appeared on movie screens in a 1919 French film called J’accuse. Director Abel Gance used soldiers on leave from fighting in Verdun to portray “an army of the dead.”
v1BlD TIL: The red flag, when used by pirates, came to mean "no quarter given", meaning that no mercy would be shown, and no life would be spared, while a black flag usually meant that those who surrendered without a fight would be allowed to live.
Lkjr0 TIL there are still people alive today who had a grandparent born in the 1700s
xVeJg TIL that the most conservative Amish subgroup, the Swartzentruber Amish, are so strict that they even forbid the use of bicycles and velcro, considering them to be too modern.