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TIL Germany decided to retroactively pay pensions to african soldiers that served in the imperial colonial army. Claimants were handed a broom and ordered in German to perform the manual of arms. Not one of them failed the test.

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W8R8 TIL of the ‘Banana massacre’ in 1928, where up to 3000 striking workers where killed by colombian forces, after the US threatened to invade if they would not protect american interests.
WD8Y Til that A&W’s third-pound burger which had the same price as McDonald’s Quarter Pounder and which beat it in blind taste tests supposedly failed because consumers didn’t know that a third was bigger than a fourth
E76p TIL: When Clint Eastwood was 21 he survived a plan crash in the ocean then swam unassisted two miles in the frigid Pacific waters just off the San Fransisco Bay.
w5MY TIL that Benito Mussolini’s granddaughter was featured in the cover page of Playboy in 1983, and is now a member of the Italian parliament.
Egg0o TIL South American independences were planned by Thomas Maitland, the Maitland Plan consisted on capturing Buenos Aires and Chile, and then emancipate Peru and Quito. It was not employed by Britain but José de San Martín who was introduced to the plan, he would "liberate" great part of the continent