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TIL that by law no US officer can outrank George Washington. He was promited to 6 star general in 1976.

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4kyvo TIL about the Free and Rowdy political party of Atlanta - which included many owners of distilleries, bars and brothels.
vnwj TIL the first Australian ship to go to Japan was a boat full of convicts who mutinied against their masters in in 1829. After escaping to China the sailing master wrote an account of their journey, but until 2017 when an amateur historian found Japanese paintings of the ship no one believed him.
mamE TIL Ireland has a ban on hundreds of books, including “How to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed”
pj5e TIL: A guy volunteered to get imprisoned at Auschwitz in order to gather the first intelligence report on the camp. He then organized a resistance movement and informed the Western Allies of Nazi atrocities. He then escaped from the camp and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. Whoa.
QJ69e TIL that the The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in the UK has a £1 million bounty to the first person who creates a product that is 100% chemical-free