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TIL: Camels served in the US Civil War

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WkrpB TIL what jauhar is. During foreign invasions of India, women would often throw themselves onto pyres when they felt a war or battle was lost or beyond victory. This was to avoid pillage and plunder. The practice is no longer around today, and was phased out around the Mughal era.
gYXA TIL: In Vietnam, the Vietnam War is known as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War.
RB51 TIL Texas abolished “Last Meal” before execution because a prisoner, Lawrence Russell Brewer, requested a 5 course meal and ate nothing of it because he “wasn’t hungry after all”
Zem4 TIL there is a 5 minute survey that predicts suicide risk in the person polled with a ~66% accuracy for 6 future weeks. It is called the “Hopelessness Scale”… and is exclusively available for around $60 from Pearson, a text book company that hyper-aggressively defends the survey’s copyright.
J5Nm TIL there is a 42 kilobyte “zip bomb” which will extract itself to 4.5 Petabytes