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TIL In 1944, a British captain and his troops came under heavy fire in which he single handedly organized defenses, carried wounded to safety, was shot in the face and arms, then ordered his men to fall back as he held his position with just a pistol and grenades, where he was last seen.

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mJDv TIL during the Napoleonic Wars the English Navy inflicted over 3 times as many casualties on the French Navy than the French Navy inflicted on the English Navy, in part because French gun crews fired high to disable enemy masts & rigging while English gun crews fired low into enemy gun crews & hulls
lknA TIL that sanitary pads can take 500-800 years to decompose in landfills.
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