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TIL of Sergeant Stubby the most decorated dog of WWI & the only dog to be promoted by combat. He saved his regiment from mustard gas attacks comforted the wounded & notified his troop of oncoming artillery. After the war led parades across the country met 3 presidents & became a university mascot.

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4gla TIL: In Tunisia you can book an overnight stay in Luke Skywalker’s boyhood home for only $10
p8xx4 TIL there were still three people using iron lungs in 2017, one of them permanently
woomY TIL about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, wherein 146 garment workers died because of the factory owners’ decision to keep all exit doors locked to prevent theft and unauthorized breaks. The owners of the company survived and made roughly $400 per worker due to the insurance payout.
a5WN TIL that during one of the Magic School Bus episodes they literally had fish ejaculate on the entire cast of kids.
PYMBw TIL Donnie Yen (the blind monk in Star Wars: Rogue One/star of the Ip Man films) was once leaving a Hong Kong nightclub with his girlfriend when they were attacked by a gang who had been bothering them earlier in the night. Donnie hospitalised 8 of them.