TIL In 1864 during the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia, a Union and Confederate soldier got into a fistfight to settle their disagreement on who was the other's prisoner. The brawl made both armies pause the entire battle just so they could watch them fight. [source, comments]

TIL, The Netherlands gives Canada 20,000 tulips every year as a thank you for protecting the Dutch royal family in WW2 [source, comments]

TIL that until 1976, the US Army shared responsibility with the Marines for transporting the President by helicopter. When crewed by their personnel, the aircraft was known as "Army One". [source, comments]

TIL that there is a negative form of the halo effect, called The Horn Effect , which allows one disliked trait or aspect of a person or product to negatively influence globally. For those seen in a negative light, anything they do that is negative is exemplified, while the positive are not seen. [source, comments]

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TIL a Chinese man was thought to have died from a lightning strike until his body exploded at his cremation. A piece of metal was found leading to the discovery that a weather rocket, meant to break up hail, had failed to explode & had fallen through the man's roof acting like a bullet, killing him. [source, comments]