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TIL American Evangelicals help fund violent anti-gay movement in Uganda

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epnNn TIL a rugby player ran a 90km marathon in his rugby boots and later organized a Test match in a WWII POW camp
b9rO0 TIL Rumors during WW2 were that the Germans had destroyed a Canadian WW1 war memorial to peace, in France. Angered by this, Hitler invited the worlds press to photograph him there, to prove the Germans hadn't damaged it.
yVyPp TIL switzerland has a "marriage penalty" that leaves married, childless couples in a financial disadvantage
wolR1 TIL the reason many African countries have the colours green, yellow and red on their flags is because of an Ethiopian influence. The colours of the flag of Ethiopia, have come to represent the pan-Africanist ideology because it avoided being taken over by a colonial power.
5YN1D TIL About Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the "Lion of (East) Africa". He was a General for Imperial Germany under Wilhelm II during the First World War, known as one of the greatest Generals of WW1 he was "the only German Commander to successfully invade the British Empire during WW1"