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TIL There have been multiple people who’ve been claimed to be the Messiah

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J1gYk TIL The Geneva Convention allows belligerents to take patients of hospital ships as prisoners of war, but not the staff
b9RxZ TIL that walruses can whistle
mNjv TIL that up until very recently, the royal family of England did not carry cash. Prince William is the first to do so after having to borrow from Kate Middleton at a grocery store
pYl9p TIL that in 2014, David Hester filed a lawsuit against A&E Television due to expensive items being planted in storage closets in the show before auctions in the show Storage Wars. He was let go in response.
yXn8 TIL that a Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WWII returned 20 years later to present his family’s 400-year-old sword as a symbol of regret.