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TIL that Theodore Roosevelt drafted a letter during the Spanish-American War requesting that his corps be transferred from Cuba after 4,000 soldiers fell ill. The letter was leaked to an AP reporter, which prompted the McKinley administration to bring the unit home to defuse the bad publicity.

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Rxb1 TIL French numbers are normally expressed in base 10, but numbers 60-99 are expressed in base 20. The French word for 80 is quatre-vingts, literally “four twenties”, and the word for 75 is soixante-quinze, literally “sixty-fifteen”.
Jdbv TIL during the Berlin Airlift, the allies became so efficient that they landed a plane in West Berlin every 30 seconds, humiliating the Soviets and showing that a city could be sustained indefinitely by air alone.
KOGG4 TIL that Orlando Bloom and Peter Jackson have both seen "taking the hobbits to isengard"
AeV7 TIL George Orwell had difficulty finding a publisher for ‘Animal Farm.’ It was rejected because it was critical of the Soviet Union. Written during WWII, it was feared that it might hurt relations between Britain and the USSR. When it was finally published the preface about censorship was omitted.
9wxmm TIL that Eisenhower threatened to quit before D-Day. Both Winston Churchill and Eisenhowever were at odds 'against' each other.