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TIL at the start of the Civil War, General Robert E. Lee said “I look upon secession as anarchy…but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?”

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jNOja TIL that the japanese army commited such horrible war crimes during WW2, that a nazi (John Rabe) is regarded as the chinese Oscar Schindler for saving up to 250'000 people from being killed
9wlgM TIL Copyleft is a thing
VB16Q TILL John William Friso, Prince of Orange and his wife, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kessel are the most recent common ancestors of all European monarchs, current and former that have reigned since WWII
b9eBj TIL of the Wake Island Rail, a little-known casualty of WW2; it went extinct when Japanese soldiers were stranded on the island by a US blockade. With no fear of predators, a combo of overhunting by the starving Japanese & the bombing of the island by the US wiped out the entire species in 1 year