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TIL Rip was a stray dog adopted by an Air Raid Patrol in WW2. Although not trained for rescue work, he sniffed out over 100 victims trapped beneath buildings. He was awarded the Dickin medal for his work, which has been held partially responsible for prompting the training of search and rescue dogs.
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TIL about Odette Sansom Hallowes. An SOE agent during WWII, she was captured by the Gestapo, interrogated, tortured, and sentenced to death twice. She survived the war and was the first woman to be awarded the UK’s George Cross. In 1951 her GC was stolen, but later returned with an apology note.
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TIL Sigmund Freud was awarded the Goethe Prize for literature in 1930. Editor Adam Phillips asserts that Freud should be read like ‘any great novelist’. His case of Dora uses modern literary techniques and has been compared to the novels of Marcel Proust, Henry James, and James Joyce
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TIL the first and last Australian torchbearers for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games were Nova Peris & Cathy Freeman, who are both Aboriginal women, both Olympic gold medalists, both holders of the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) and were both previously awarded Young Australian of the Year.
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