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TIL that after Spartacus was defeated, Crassus, the commander of the Roman forces, crucified 6,000 of the surviving rebels and lined the road with them—a crucifixion every ~100 feet for over 100 miles.

by whatilearned January 21, 2022, 8:17 am

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TIL Frederic John Walker known more popularly as Johnnie Walker (the brand of Whisky), was the most successful anti-submarine commander of the Second World War, being credited with 17 U boats destroyed. One eccentric aspect of his charismatic nature was the playing of the tune “A Hunting we will go”

by whatilearned January 10, 2022, 4:45 pm

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TIL Admiral James O. Richardson, Commander of the U.S. Fleet, protested redeploying the Pacific Fleet to Hawaii in 1940-41 because Hawaii’s defenses were not ready for a war with Japan. Annoyed, President Roosevelt fired him in February 1941. Ten months later, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

by whatilearned December 9, 2021, 9:42 pm

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TIL In 1945, Amedeo Guillet (The Devil Commander / Italian Lawrence of Arabia) stole the Crown of Ethiopia from the Garibaldi social brigade in order to return it to King Haile Selassie. This was the first act of reconciliation between Italy and Ethiopia.

by whatilearned November 24, 2021, 12:45 pm

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TIL On one of the NASA Space Shuttle missions (STS-61-B), the flight commander padlocked the orbiter external hatch closed because they did not have enough trust in one of the other astronauts and stated “I don’t know this guy very well. He might flip out or something.”

by whatilearned November 18, 2021, 8:19 pm

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Does anyone else that’s a coder use Commander One as a Finder Replacement? I haven’t hit my groove with it, but know several coders that love it.

by ProgrammerDude November 14, 2021, 6:59 pm

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TIL During the 1905 Russian Revolution, the Tsar flirted with imposing a military dictatorship to avoid reform. When he asked Grand Duke Nicholas, a respected commander, to become dictator, the nobleman drew a pistol and threatened to shoot himself in the head if the Tsar further refused the reforms

by whatilearned October 21, 2021, 3:41 am

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TIL in 1942, British Admiral Admiral Max Horton chose to play the U-boat commander in a wargame designed to analyse the conflict in the Atlantic. He was ‘rather dismayed’ when he was outsmarted 5 times out of 5 by 20 year-old Janet Okell

by whatilearned October 8, 2021, 12:06 pm

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TIL that on February 7 1981, a Tupolev Tu-104 passenger jet crashed during take off from Pushkin Airport near Leningrad, Russia, resulting in the death of all 50 people on board, including 16 Soviet admirals and generals, among them the commander of the Pacific Fleet.

by whatilearned September 29, 2021, 2:24 am

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TIL that the Queen of the UK trained as a mechanic with the British army during WW2. Queen Elizabeth II started as a junior officer in the Auxiliary Territorial Service where she learned car mechanics and truck driving and rose to the rank of junior commander. She was known as mechanic No. 230873.

by whatilearned September 19, 2021, 2:30 pm

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TIL that the Rhodesian Light Infantry’s final commander Charlie Aust described himself as “seedy moustache, glasses and intensely ugly” so his soldiers knew how to identify him.

by whatilearned September 16, 2021, 2:26 pm

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TIL that because of his role as a Ranger commander in Saving Private Ryan, his other related work and charitable efforts, actor Tom Hanks was inducted as an honorary member of Army Ranger Hall of Fame.

by whatilearned July 11, 2021, 4:17 am

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