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TIL Claire Chennault, leader of the Flying Tigers and eventual 14th Air Force Commander, built a brothel. “His men were going to visit brothels, regardless of what the rules said,” and it was “better to have his “boys” visit a brothel that was regularly inspected to reduce venereal diseases.”

by whatilearned July 5, 2022, 12:55 am

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TIL that the first words on the moon of Pete Conrad, commander of Apollo 12, were “Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me.” to win a 500$ bet with an Italian reporter. He never received the money.

by whatilearned July 4, 2022, 1:05 pm

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TIL about Sir Guy Carleton a British commander who defeated an American invasion force in Quebec, by sending smallpox infected prostitutes into American lines.

by whatilearned July 1, 2022, 11:42 pm

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TIL Philippe Pétain, the commander of the French army from 1917 until 1940, was made prime minister a few days before France fell in 1940. Once Vichy France was created, he became head of state and collaborated with the Axis. After WWII, he was spared death because of his WWI service to the country.

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 8:58 pm

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TIL in 1976, George Washington was posthumously promoted to the rank of General of the Armies of the United States, the highest rank in the United States Army. The only other person to ever hold this rank was John J. Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces during WW1.

by whatilearned June 22, 2022, 12:31 am

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TIL that the Omrides were a ruling dynasty of the biblical kingdom of Israel. The most notable Omride is King Ahab, whose wife was queen Jezebel. Their dynasty was ended when Jehu, an Israelite military commander, seized the throne and had all of king Ahab’s descendants and kin put to death.

by whatilearned June 6, 2022, 4:22 pm

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A new captain becomes leader of a company of soldiers. As he goes about learning everything on how they do things he finds two soldiers guarding a bench. He asks his sergeants why they’re guarding the bench and they say the previous commander ordered it. “

by cringeyjokesman May 28, 2022, 11:36 pm

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TIL of Commander James H. Ward, the first US Naval officer to be killed in the American Civil War. A destroyer named after him fired the first American shots of the Pacific Theater in WW2, sinking a Japanese submarine. Actor Andy Devine is his great-grandson.

by whatilearned May 27, 2022, 2:47 am

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TIL Lt Gen ‘Boy’ Browning, Commander of the British 1st Airborne Division in WW2 (played by Dirk Bogarde in ‘A Bridge too Far’), was married to the famous author, Daphne du Maurier.

by whatilearned May 24, 2022, 1:30 pm

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TIL Civil War Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg once served as both a commander and quartermaster simultaneously. He submitted a requisition for supplies to himself and then denied them – twice.

by whatilearned May 20, 2022, 4:57 pm

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TIL that, on October 30, 1939, just under two months into World War II, a German U-boat submarine fired three torpedoes at the ship carrying soon-to-be Prime Minister Winston Churchill, but none of them exploded. Commander Wilhelm Zahn became known as “The Man Who Almost Killed Churchill”.

by whatilearned May 17, 2022, 9:51 pm

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TIL about flavius aetius. A military commander considered to be the most powerful man in the Western Roman Empire during the last phase of its decline and fall. He was most famously known for defeating Attila the Hun at the Battle of Catalaunian Fields. He was known was the last of the Roman’s.

by whatilearned March 14, 2022, 6:14 pm

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