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TIL that General Dwight Eisenhower wrote a letter before D-Day, accepting full responsibility in case the Allied invasion of Normandy failed

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6ZpJ TIL that a good old-fashioned fistfight between consenting parties is legal in the state of Washington.
oewW TIL That a Korean man during WWII was conscripted to fight for the Japanese, was caught by the Russians, forced to fight for the Russians, captured and forced to fight for the Germans, and finally captured by American troops at D-Day. He eventually moved and passed away in Illinois.
vw0K TIL every Google Maps street view of a KFC blurs the face of Colonel Sanders due to Google’s security policy that every human’s face gets blurred.
R7YD9 TIL a Colombian man died because a tapeworm inside him got cancer.
114P TIL: There’s a statue in Glasgow called the “Duke of Wellington” with a traffic cone on its head since 1980. The city removed it several times but a new one would appear in the night so they gave up and it now a permanent icon of the city.