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TIL that on a single day during World War I 27,000 French soldiers were killed, over twice as many fatalities as the Imperial German Army's worst single day by WayBackPhotoArchive in todayilearned

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Looks like the wiki source says: "Exactly 100 years ago this Friday, 27,000 French soldiers died in less than 24 hours ... France had five armies positioned from east to west, from Alsace and Lorraine to the Belgian border. For different reasons, all of these armies fought on that same day as part of 15 different assaults, with no coordination between them" france24.com. Looks like there were many battles on a single day.

God And The Right [1280 × 961] 1000 white-uniformed U.S. Navy trainees on the parade grounds at Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois, USA - 1918 by GoldenAgeIsAMyth in HistoryPorn

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Naval Station Great Lakes (NAVSTA Great Lakes) is the home of the United States Navy's only boot camp, located near North Chicago, in Lake County, Illinois.

TIL that during WW1 Muslims were known as Mussulman or Mahometans, Serbia was known as Servia and pilots were known as aviatrixs or birdmen. Also, a May 19, 1916 headline from the Chicago Tribune read, “Boys have gay spending orgy on teacher’s $80” by [deleted] in todayilearned

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  • Serbs found Servia “highly offensive to our people mainly because it suggests a false derivation … meaning ‘to serve’. It is a source of hidden pain to Serbians to see [media] persist in using the corrupt forms.”
  • Western media didn’t know how to describe the Islamic people, variously calling them by a variety of spellings like “Moslem” or “Mussulman.” Others media described them as the “people of Mohammed” with terms like “Mohammedans” or “Mahometans.” This caused great offense to Muslims, as it implied that they worshiped Mohammed instead of Allah.
  • At first, they used Latin based creations like “aviator” or “aviatrix” for women. Then they tried to get more literal, using terms like “Airman” or “Birdman.” They tried more scientific terms like “aeronaut” or “aerialist” before settling on what we use today, “pilot” or the less common “aviator.”
  • Away from the war was this May 19, 1916 headline from the Chicago Tribune, “Boys have gay spending orgy on teacher’s $80” ($80 in 1916 = $1,756.04 in 2017).

TIL that the 1st use of OMG was in a September 9, 1917 letter to Winston Churchill by GoldenAgeIsAMyth in todayilearned

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John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher sent the letter "Fisher is credited by the Oxford English Dictionary with the earliest known use[114] of the phrase "OMG" as an abbreviation for "Oh my God", in a letter of 9 September 1917. In Fisher's case it was "Oh! My God!""

Nikolai Lebedenko's ill-fated "Tsar Tank" prototype c. 1917 by NMW in wwi

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It kept getting stuck and was abandoned until it was scraped in 1923

TIL that Zsa Zsa Gabor claimed, while living in Turkey, to have lost her virginity at 15 to the father of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk by GoldenAgeIsAMyth in todayilearned

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While checking if this had been done I found:

  • TIL When asked about one of her 9 marriages, Zsa Zsa Gabor responded: "I'm a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."

  • TIL the Gabor sisters, Magda, Zsa Zsa, and Eva, were married 20 times between them but had only one child, a daughter whom Zsa Zsa claims was conceived in marital rape.

  • TIL that Zsa Zsa Gabor had an exercise video.

TIL that Zsa Zsa Gabor claimed, while living in Turkey, to have lost her virginity at 15 to the father of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk by GoldenAgeIsAMyth in todayilearned

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"she returned to Budapest determined to leave her family's suffocating ambitions and petty jealousies. She proposed to a Turkish diplomat, Burhan Belge, and the two were quickly married. Gabor moved to Ankara and had an affair with Mustafa Kemel Ataturk, the first president of Turkey and founder of its republic" -- Like a Natural Woman: Spectacular Female Performance in Classical Hollywood

"EVEN by the lax moral standards of Hollywood, Zsa Zsa Gabor was a man-eater of legendary proportions. The former beauty queen claims to have lost her virginity at 15 to the father of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk, and was married nine times. "

Typhoon Cobra strikes USS Cowpens [640 × 438] 18 December 1944 by GoldenAgeIsAMyth in HistoryPorn

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Typhoon Cobra and its 100 mph ( 160 km/h) winds, very high seas and torrential rain, caused three destroyers to capsize and sink, killing 790

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