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TIL that WW2 British General Bernard Montgomery made a bet with Walter Bedell Smith, that if he could capture Sfax by April 1943, then he would get a Flying Fortress. Montgomery did so and when Smith tried to laugh it off, went to Eisenhower to get his Flying Fortress.

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