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TIL The White Helmets in Syria is an organization dedicated to providing free aid to civilians during the war.

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DQmKe TIL in 910, Hungarian horse archers defeated a much larger German army by pretending to retreat for 12 hours, luring them into a trap, then annihilating them with hidden reserves.
v1DYj TIL that Romanian orphanages have become the study subjects of choice for understanding the consequences of massive sensory, intellectual, and emotional deprivation in infants and children.
d8XdB TIL Edward Dickinson Baker was serving as a U.S. Senator when the U.S. Civil War broke out and re-joined the Army as a colonel. He was killed in battle and remains the only sitting U.S. senator ever to be killed in a military engagement.
NXYwM TIL about documents of Human-Orca encounters when SeaWorld used to let people get close to them. One of these stories mentions how an orca supposedly 'reverse trained' the Human, using the methods Orca trainers trained Orcas with, to pet them near their blowhole, because the human was hesitating to.
jNjmn TIL There are five bigger bed sizes than Super King. They are Eastern King, Emperor, Super Emperor, Caesar and the biggest, Super Caesar.