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PYl6g TIL about Father Francis Gleeson, an Army chaplain during WWI. At the Battle of Ypres, among heavy casualties, he tore off the badges that marked him as a non-combatant so he could take command and hold the line.
oBW9r TIL Japan is Having a Shortage of Ninjas Despite Offering $85,000 Salary
0egv TIL Mississippi didn’t ratify the 13th Amendment (abolishing slavery) until March 16, 1995.
Pyme TIL that Qantas Airways’s name was originally an acronym for “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services”
wOp6 TIL all mammals have around one billion heartbeats in their lifetime