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TIL that President Harry S. Truman commanded an artillery battery in WW1 in the US Army, and under his command, ‘Battery D did not lose a single man in France.’

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D1jvV TIL of Katya the Bear who was a brown bear native to Kazakhstan who was imprisoned in 2004 after being found guilty of mauling two people. Katya was held in an adult prison. The bear was released from imprisonment and allowed to congregate with other bears after serving a fifteen-year sentence.
awJL9 TIL the Cassandra metaphor occurs when valid warnings are dismissed. The Greek god Apollo gave Cassandra the gift of prophecy, but she refused his love so he placed a curse that nobody would believe her. She was left with knowledge of future events she could not alter or convince others of.
7rm1M TIL about Karl Richard Lepsius, a Prussian egyptologist who led an expedition to the Great Pyramids of Giza during the 1840s, leaving behind a hieroglyphic graffiti above its entrance, praising the patron of the project, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
R7WN4 TIL from my Bolivian co-worker that Potosi (the largest city in the new world 1545) had more than 40,000 tons of silver shipped out of the town, making the Spanish Empire one of the richest the world had ever seen. He said it Bolivians claim it was enough silver to build an transatlantic bridge.
0wpjp TIL that the creators of a 2007 anti-piracy PSA were sued when they didn't pay royalties to the artist whose music was used in said PSA.