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Apr 11, 2020

TIL War for the Spartans was in some ways a respite from the strict schedule of their everyday lives and was almost seen as a holiday. Physical exercise was less rigorous, they were allowed a regimen less rigid and in the afternoons, they held competitions, sang hymns and recited poetry.

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Apr 01, 2020

TIL In Saxony, sometime in the early 1900s, a lady asked a man standing in uniform on a train station platform to move her trunk. He replied "Madam, I am not a porter; I only look like one". The man turned out to be Frederick August III, King of Saxony.

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Mar 02, 2020

TIL of the amazing and fearless POW dog Judy, who uplifted and protected British prisoners captured by the Japanese during WW2. She skirted death multiple times and survived the war. Her “master” built her a granite memorial inscribed with her life story when she died of old age

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Feb 16, 2020

TIL of Eric Erickson, a Swedish businessman who pretended to be devoted to the Nazis, but was really a spy for the American military. He made more than 30 trips to Germany between 1939-1945. He mapped out oil refineries that were later bombed. His family had disowned him for “supporting” Hitler.

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Jan 21, 2020

TIL that just 10 percent of world military spending would probably be sufficient to end poverty and hunger

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Dec 10, 2019

TIL that Stan Lee, Dr. Seuss, Frank Capra and William Saroyan all served as “playwright” in World War 2, a title only given to 9 serviceman.

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Nov 24, 2019

TIL during World War I, both sides used fake trees as spy posts. To make them, engineers would find a dead tree, then take sketches of it and make a detailed replica. At night, they would then would tear out the original tree and replace it with the fake.

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Oct 15, 2019

TIL that the first spy satellites would eject capsules of photographic film back to earth, which would then be caught mid-flight by aeroplanes and returned to ground for photos to be developed.

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Sep 12, 2019

TIL the F/A-18 warning system uses an authoritative female/maternal voice to get pilot attention. Known to crew members as "Bitchin Betty"

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Aug 01, 2019

TIL the war between Israel and Egypt in 1967 ended up trapping 14 unlucky Cargo Ships in the Suez Canal for eight years. During this period crew members drank so much beer, they speculated there must be five feet of beer bottles on the lake's floor.

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Jun 19, 2019

TIL that during WWI, France built a 'Fake Paris' near its capital city to confuse German pilots.

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Jun 08, 2019

TIL the U.S. Army Once Kept $1 Billion Worth of LSD in a Maryland Office for Some Reason ... and Then It Disappeared

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May 16, 2019

TIL Hitler went to sleep very late the night before D-Day. He gave orders not to be woken up for any reason. His staff obeyed the order. When Hitler woke up, it was too late to stop the invasion.

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Apr 10, 2019

TIL in the 1950s the US Government investigated a person named Robert Dorr because he kept writing to Boeing and asking for pictures of their planes. They discovered Dorr was a just teenager who loved planes, an "average and loyal American boy." He grew up to be a diplomat, author, and TV pundit.

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