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TIL in May 1945, the 12th Army Group under the command of Omar Bradley numbered 1.3 million men in 43 divisions, and is the largest group of US soldiers to ever serve under an American field commander.

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MEDK TIL that the Presidents of the United States from the end of the Civil War until the 1890s were called the ‘Forgettable Presidents’ because they were either impeached, assassinated, disgraced by their own party, surrounded by corruption, or possibly fraudulently elected
VMo4Q TIL that as the Roman Emperor Vespasian was dying with severe diarrhea, he remarked "Dear me, I think I'm becoming a god" before succumbing to his illness.
geRA TIL that certain Popeye’s locations in the South serve fried chicken livers. They aren’t the healthiest option - one serving of Popeye’s chicken livers contains a whopping 765mg of cholesterol. (For reference, eating a stick of butter would be 243mg of cholesterol.)
oRRVK TIL that a Canadian politician got expelled from her party for stomping and performing voodoo on a Bush doll in a "22 Minutes" segment.
7rvoO TIL about Polish photographer Zofia Rydet, who at the age of 67 began her project 'Sociological Record' to document every household in Poland. She took over 20,000 photographs before her death in 1997.