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TIL the term Guerrilla Warfare was coined during the Peninsula War (Napoleon era - 1807-1814) and is a reference to the Spanish word "guerrilla" (little war) which was used to refer to the partisans fighting against the French.

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YpDVP TIL that on 9/11/2001, North East Air Defense Sector commanding officer Kevin Nasypany remarked "The hijack's not supposed to be for another hour" because they had scheduled a simulation involving politically motivated asylum-seekers hijacking a plane & landing it on a Cuba-like island
4XQAN TIL in 1987, a concentration camp survivor was asked to identify an accused Nazi guard in court. He asked him to remove his glasses and approached him closely. When he made eye contact, the survivor recoiled and shouted "Grozny!" meaning "Terrible" in Polish, recognizing his "murderous eyes."
GAY4N TIL that Mark Cuban co-founded a company with the aim of making prescription drugs radically more affordable in the USA
8XBb TIL that during the Vietnam War, a US task force known as ‘Tiger Force’ routinely cut of the ears of its victims to make necklaces from them.
GOa5 TIL of Frank Nelson Cole. At a 1903 meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Cole—while remaining completely silent—showed on a chalkboard an important new proof by, among other things, calculating 193,707,721 × 761,838,257,287 by hand. He sat down after an hour to a standing ovation.