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TIL that General Patton had a years long affair with his niece starting when she was 17 and continuing on through WWII

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rGp0 TIL that in 1964 an Israeli spy convinced the Syrians to plant trees near military fortifications so that their soldiers had some shelter against the sun. The Israeli’s used those trees as targeting markers ensuring a swift victory in the Six-Day War
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rR6B1 TIL that the office Treasurer of the United States has been held by women since 1949
VMaLD TIL about Adolph Metzger, a bugler who used his instrument as a weapon until it was battered shapeless in the Fetterman Fight. Metzger was the only soldier whose dead body was not mutilated. Instead the Indians covered him with a buffalo hide. His dented bugle is now displayed in a Wyoming museum.
awm8L TIL that a 13-year old man from Sweden named Mats Wermelin scored 272 points in Febuary 5, 1974 in a tournament in Stockholm, which is considered a Guinness World Record