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TIL that Ulysses S. Grant threatened to resign his commission if the President and U.S. Government prosecuted Robert E. Lee or any of his men.

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d8Km8 TIL Oskar Dirlewanger was a Nazi officer so sadistic that other SS units avoided interacting with him. He's been accused of child molestation and necrophilia, and was beaten to death by guards while in Allied custody
yQYM8 TIL that there is a 180 ft (55 metres) high sculpture of a nude male figure with a prominent erection carved into a hillside in England. The origin of the figure is unclear and, although it is assumed to be ancient, the earliest recorded mention of it is in the late 17th century.
ANRMx TIL that Giorno means Day in italian, and given that Giorno's whole power is giving life to inanimate objects, he is basically named New Day = New Life!!!
9YoEG TIL that in 1997 a person consumed 2-4 L of soda for a month leading to too much bromine (from brominated vegetable oil) which required dialysis to remove.
BrQye TIL Neil Armstrong planting the US flag on the moon did not claim the moon for the US because of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that made the moon into a 'global commons'