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TIL that after the Treaty of Versailles, Marshal Ferdinand Foch said “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years”. 20 years and 65 days later, WW2 broke out.

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4X9Xa TIL US Marine Reservist Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid served in Operation Restore Hope (the setting of Black Hawk Down). His father, Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, was the opposition leader. One weekend in 1995 he didn’t show up to drill because he was busy taking over as warlord.
Brmme TIL Before dentures were invented, teeth were pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers for use as prosthetics. In the 1780s an ivory denture with human teeth could cost over £100.
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