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TIL the Vietnam war was the only war in which military dogs were classified as expendable equipment, and not allowed to return home. 3800 out of 4000 dogs were left behind.

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yVZWl TIL there was a hostage crisis at Berkeley , California in 1990s where the accused (who was suffering from a schizophrenic episode) demanded trillions of dollars from the federal government in his bizzare list of demands.
8a6R8 TIL that in the 1952 polio epidemic in Denmark, mortality was over 85 per cent due to a shortage of respirators. Dr Bjorn Ibsen invented a new kind of ventilator, proved it worked and then recruited thousands of volunteers to hand-pump them for weeks (they were fully manual). Mortality fell to 26%.
xn6w TIL that goldfish can live beyond 20 years if you take good care of them. The oldest goldfish on record was 43 years.
gMZG8 TIL: to make the Cannibal Holocaust movie appear as the recovered footage of missing documentarians, director Ruggero Deodato had some actors sign contracts that disallowed them to appear in media for 1 year after the film's release. Because of this, he was later charged with making a snuff film.
loZM5 TIL Rock band Bring Me The Horizon got their name from the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie when Captain Jack Sparrow said, "Now, bring me that horizon."