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TIL Montgomery's memoirs criticised many of his wartime comrades harshly, including Eisenhower. After publishing it, he had to apologize in a radio broadcast to avoid a lawsuit. He was also stripped of his honorary citizenship of Alabama, and was challenged to a duel by an Italian lawyer.

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YpYo7 TIL North Korea could have a lot of oil. NK reportedly has seven underexplored geological basins, with three basins said to have “proven working petroleum systems"
LQbJv TIL Nazi Germany, Francoist Spain, and the Soviet Union repressed Esperanto usage. The Nazis banned it because its creator was a Jew. Spain repressed it because Catalan nationalists used it heavily. Stalin banned it because the Association of Soviet Esperantists was thought to be a spy organization.
v1Rdx 'Selfitis’ - the obsessive need to post selfies - is a genuine mental disorder, say psychologists
M7r9B TIL that the Gregorian Calendar is used in all but 4 countries: Ethiopia, Nepal, Iran, and Afghanistan.
daQr TIL: Syphilis had been called the “French disease” in Italy, Poland and Germany, the “Italian disease” in France, the “Spanish disease” by the Dutch, the “Polish disease” by Russians, and the Turks called it the “Christian disease.”