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TIL that during the Northridge Earthquake, 93-year old Diana Peplow got her WWII-era Red Cross nurse uniform and assisted survivors for over a month.

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xVg47 TIL Bhutan, Wales, and Malta are the only countries the world whose flags have dragons on them.
PYlaZ TIL that Japanese bullet trains have never had fatalities due to derailments or collisions, but once a boy had his finger stuck in the closing doors and was dragged along until dead. Court fined the station officer present $5k and had Japan Railways pay the boy's parents $440k in compensation.
YOnr TIL C++ was originally called “C with Classes” when it was created in 1979. It was renamed as a pun involving the increment operator in 1983.
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