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TIL that the French military actually has the best military record of the last 800 years

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R7Y87 TIL that a Korean civil minister named Choe Yun-ui created the first printing press 150 years before Gutenberg was born.
PYZkn TIL that General Dwight Eisenhower wrote a letter before D-Day, accepting full responsibility in case the Allied invasion of Normandy failed
rnGW TIL that in Texas in 2009, a Craigslist escort took $150 from a man, refused to have sex, then got in a car and left. The man sprayed her car with his AK-47, killing her. He was acquitted because state law permits the “use of deadly force to recover property during a nighttime theft.”
GaBj TIL that Paris airport of Orly uses software called DECOR, which is employed in takeoffs & landings & runs on Windows 3.1, an operating system that was released in 1992. The airport only has three specialists who are familiar with DECOR. An upgrade has been scheduled for sometime between 2017-2021.
5Y8vR TIL that Linux operating system Ubuntu, is named after the Nguni philosophy of ubuntu, which Canonical indicates means "humanity to others" with a connotation of "I am what I am because of who we all are".