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TIL upon arrival to the shores of occupied Southern France, the allies were greeted by a lone Frenchman giving out champagne

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BEKd TIL that fourteen years after Wild Bill Hickok’s death, in 1900, an aging Calamity Jane arranged to be photographed next to his overgrown burial site. Elderly, thin and poor, her clothes were ragged and held together with safety pins.
ykZw TIL that a U.S. Army Captain’s base pay is $46,026 a year, while a Roman Centurion received 38.58 ounces of gold annually. Using the current market gold price of $1200 an ounce, that comes out to $46,296.
pna8 TIL there is a sea-slug that eats the venomous Portuguese Man o’ War, can store the creature’s poison for its own use and swims upside down
DnpD TIL a mother skinned one of her sons alive and fed his flesh to cannibal relatives, her other son was caged in the cellar
XWjj TIL Henry Ford strongly supported Nazi’s and even received the Grand Cross of the German Eagle.