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TIL By law, no United States officer is allowed to outrank George Washington, who posthumously became a six-star general.

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R7wrQ TIL that famous "Soviet flag over Reichstag" photo, was doctored because the soldier holding the flag was wearing 2 watches. Photographer erased the watch on his right arm because he thought soldier had looted items from dead Nazi soldiers, which was a punishable offence.
GYpd1 TIL the Feynman Technique is the best way to learn anything. First choose a concept, then teach it to a Toddler, circle back to the concept and fill in the gaps, teach it to the toddler again, keep iterating until you have mastered the concept. Created by a Nobel prize winner Richard Feynman
607W TIL that the original take of the famous WW2 photo “Raising a Flag over the Reichstag” had to be edited before it was published because the Soviet soldier could be seen wearing multiple watches which had been stolen from German citizens
KML9 TIL: Like many deep-sea cephalopods, vampire squid lack ink sacs. If threatened, instead of ink, a sticky cloud of bioluminescent mucus containing innumerable orbs of blue light is ejected from the arm tips.
16BOO TIL that $100,000 were wired to 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the insistence of Pakistan's ISI Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed and he was meeting with Porter Goss and Bob Graham in Washington over breakfast discussing Osama Bin Laden when the attacks occured.