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TIL the Geneva Convention prevents the use of the graphic + cross symbol (and crescent) in almost all circumstances — except to indicate or to protect the medical units and establishments.

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D81g TIL that prairie dogs have a complex language in which they can describe the size and shape of a human, the color of clothes the human is wearing, and even whether the human has a gun.
v11jL TIL Albert Göring, the younger brother of the head of Luftwaffe Hermann Göring, helped many Jews and dissidents survive in Germany by forging his brother’s signature and falsifying transit documents.
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