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lovlB TIL upon arrival to the shores of occupied Southern France, the allies were greeted by a lone Frenchman giving out champagne
XAr8 TIL - In 1964 the German government decided to back pay East African soliders (The Askari) who fought for them in WWI. Most had little proof of service, so they had to perform the Manual of arms in German and with a broom to prove themselves. Not a single one of them failed.
k4EE TIL that German Stalingrad veterans would often break their infantry assault badges as an indication that earning the assault badge in Stalingrad was a different level of achievement than earning it somewhere else