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TIL Susan Travers, the only woman ever to serve in the French Foreign Legion, waited until she was 91 to write her autobiography so everyone mentioned had already died

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W6a4 TIL Ben Stein Said this about Nixon: “He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying, conniving seducer like Clinton—a lying, conniving peacemaker.
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VwgD TIL in 1372 when architect Yi Kaizhan was commisioned to build the Jiayuguan fort, a pass along the Great Wall, he ordered the exact number of bricks required. He added one more when his judgement was questioned. The extra brick was never used.