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TIL that the city of Isfahan immediately surrendered to the turco-Mongol conqueror Timur and was treated with mercy. The city then killed Timur’s tax collector and his soldiers. He ordered the massacre of over 100,000 of the cities citizens and built dozens of piles out of their heads as revenge.

by whatilearned September 4, 2022, 3:22 pm

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TIL The term “Basket Case” comes from quadriplegic WWI soldiers who had to be carried around in a basket

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 4:45 pm

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Is it true that the Prussian school system was designed to instill obedience in soldiers?

by HistoryBuff August 30, 2022, 11:50 am

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TIL that Nieves Fernandez killed more than 200 Japanese Soldiers to safeguard her students

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 8:45 am

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TIL about The Lost Battalion of WW1. Wherein soldiers of the US 77th Div. launched an attack in the Argonne forest under the idea that they were being supported by French on the left and more US on the right. Ally support was stalled and the 77th pushed their attack so far that they were cut off.

by whatilearned August 27, 2022, 7:42 pm

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3 British soldiers were on a safari trip and got captured by a tribe deep in the jungle.

by cringeyjokesman August 23, 2022, 5:31 am

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TIL that the word “fragging” refers to a soldier’s deliberate or attempted killing of a fellow soldier, usually a superior. The term was coined by U.S. military personnel during the Vietnam War, during which there were nearly 900 documented and suspected fragging incidents from 1969 to 1972.

by whatilearned August 21, 2022, 2:03 am

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TIL that during World War One up to 12 million letters a week were delivered to soldiers, many on the front line

by whatilearned August 18, 2022, 10:16 am

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TIL of Ringer Edwards, an Australian prisoner of war, who survived being crucified for 63 hours by Japanese soldiers during World War II. He died in 2000 at the age of 86.

by whatilearned August 16, 2022, 2:09 pm

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Russian soldiers marching

by cringeyjokesman August 15, 2022, 10:52 am

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TIL Archimedes is recorded to have died in a math related killing. The most common story is that he was too busy solving a math problem to follow orders from Roman soldiers and was killed, or that he was found with scientific instruments that were mistaken as valuables and killed for them.

by whatilearned August 14, 2022, 10:08 am

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TIL The Crown Prince of Albania once used a bazooka to defend himself from soldiers in Gabon.

by whatilearned August 10, 2022, 11:38 am

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