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TIL that WWII General George Patton believed that he was a reincarnated ancient Roman soldier, an he also thought that he had served under Napoleon.

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DVpj TIL that some homosexual concentration camp prisoners were forced to serve out the remainder of their sentences after liberation and end of WW2
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RrE7 TIL that Mikhail Kalishnikov, inventor of the AK-47, greatly regretted having invented the weapon, and is quoted as saying “I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.”
e8Z4 TIL that before the Eraser was invented people used soft bread crumbs to erase pencil marks
mx0Wy TIL about David Vetter, a child who lived with a severely weakened immune system meaning that he spent the majority of his life inside a sterile bubble. In 1997 researchers from NASA create a specialized space suit for him, allowing him to walk outside his bubble for the first time.