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TIL there's such a thing as a raccoon dog

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YgXr TIL that when Manfred von Richtofen (the Red Baron) was shot down and killed in 1918, the British Army gave him a full military funeral, complete with clergy, a gun salute and a wreath inscribed with, “To Our Gallant and Worthy Foe.”
ba7a TIL It Was Once Someone’s Job to Chat With the King While He Used the Toilet
aEgZ TIL Of “Peter the great”, a cat who was the lone survivor of a New Zealand sulfur mine on a remote island volcano. The resupply ship found no trace of the miners.
pXk4 TIL of malariotherapy. The treatment consisted of injecting patients who had developed psychosis as a result of late-stage syphilis with blood from soldiers with malaria. It actually worked and won the Nobel Prize in 1927.
m1OmM TIL people who have their lens surgicallly removed are able to see UV light