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TIL that at the onset of the Korean War, the US Army was so unprepared it had to salvage tanks from WWII battlefields and even from display pedestals in Fort Knox to equip its forces.

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6EJYQ TIL Joan of Arc wanted to fight the Hussites, a Czech-based Christian sect deemed "heretical" by the Catholic Church. In a letter to the Hussites, she said that were she not busy fighting the English, she would march to Bohemia to relieve the Hussites "of either their heresy or their lives."
NXrlQ TIL about The returning soldier effect. It is a phenomenon which suggests that more boys are born during and immediately after wars.
4eVb TIL the US is the same size as the entire continent of Europe with half the population
W9l9 TIL that Benjamin Netanyahu said the 9/11 attacks were beneficial to Israel because it ‘swung American public opinion.’
D19NV TIL about Nadja West: orphan to West Point to MD to first black, female Lieutenant General (3 stars)—her journey inspired by none other than Star Trek