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TIL that one of the leaders of the Long March was a German communist named Otto Braun. During the Chinese Civil War, he went by the alias "Li De."

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Mvla TIL Japanese people answer the phone by saying “moshi moshi” (to friends & family) because foxes cannot say it.
wovQo TIL dogs can smell cancer. A dog’s nose is so powerful it can detect tiny chemical changes in your breath, sweat, or urine caused by certain cancers. In some studies, trained dogs identified cancers like breast and lung cancer with accuracy similar to medical tests
oBlZr TIL Michigan has a small town named Zilwaukee, named so that people would confuse it with Milwaukee and end up settling there.
Eevx TIL that in 2013 a grad student accidentally debunked an influential economics paper. He was trying to replicate the paper’s math for a school project and couldn’t, because it was completely wrong.
nWDDb TIL of the horse Comanche, the only horse to make it back from the Battle of Little Bighorn, despite being gravely wounded.