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TIL that Harry Redknapp once brought a fan on to play for West Ham in a preseason friendly.

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7reDx TIL A WW2 pigeon named Mary of Exeter survived an assassination attempt by a German warhawk, was shot, hit with shrapnel, and survived a bombing of her loft while delivering messages across the English Channel to France.
MeRMK TIL Casualty or ‘Mercy’ dogs were vital in World War One. They carried supplies so wounded soldiers could help themselves to supplies and tend to their own wounds, whilst other more gravely wounded soldiers would seek the company of a Mercy dog to wait with them whilst they died.
ANgbx TIL the croissant did not originate from the Danish or the French, but from Austria
N7vgM TIL of the ecocide at Chaco Canyon. When the Anasazis arrived at Chaco Canyon, it was a dense woodlands, but after years of deforestation, harmful farming practices, and finally a drought, the area is now a desert. Occupation there only lasted around 200 years.
9YYM7 TIL that Hitler approved of a school to talk to dogs. One dog, when asked "Who is Adolf Hitler?" was trained to reply "Mein Fuhrer!"