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4xP5 TIL that George Washington and the Marquis of Lafayette were so close that they were like father and son. The relationship between the childless American and fatherless Frenchman was vital for the American Revolution. Lafayette named a son George Washington Lafayette.
Rdn1 TIL that during the Nazi occupation of France, the Nazis didn’t remove the American flag flying over the Marquis de Lafayette’s grave
VmyZ TIL That in World War I, the Germans tried to use a picture of Quentin Roosevelt’s body as propoganda to increase moral. This backfired, as soldiers wondered why the sons of American Presidents were fighting and dying at the front, while the Kaiser’s sons were not.