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TIL Canadians were considered some of the most ruthless in WWI

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jJAR TIL Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47, is still alive at the ripe old age of 93
kvW TIL that the British used Concentration Camps over 40 years before the Germans
xljD TIL Maj. Wilbert D. “Doug” Pearson is the only person to have achieved an air to space kill.
mxWKx TIL a Washington detective forged letters sent to the presiding judge to get a better sentence
QNx66 TIL Napoleon indirectly began the process of Latin American independence when the power vacuum was filled by local politiccal. Such leaders embraced nationalistic sentiments influenced by French nationalism and led successful independence movements in Latin America.