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TIL that in an unrivaled capacity to taunt the enemy US Army General Matthew Ridgway would stand in the middle of a road under heavy artillery fire and urinate to demonstrate his contempt for German accuracy. Aides and fellow generals repeatedly begged him to abandon this bravado. He ignored them.
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TIL that 27% of WWII Japan's Allied prisoners died while 4% of Nazi Germany's Allied prisoners died.
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TIL that the celebrated Tudor warship Mary Rose - rediscovered in 1982 and now restored as a museum - had a sister ship called Peter Pomegranate whose fate remains unknown