When a face palm works out in the end (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

During the Korean War, a group of heavily outnumbered US soldiers requested an airdrop of mortar shells, as they were running low. The code name for mortar shells was tootsie rolls. Apparently whoever got the message was unaware of this, and they sent the soldiers an actual package or tootsie rolls. Luckily for the soldiers, they realized they could use tootsie rolls to patch their supplies and vehicles, and they managed to escape as a result

Tootsie Rolls Saved Troops at the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir - Museum of The American G.I.

Troops were stationed at Chang Jin mountain reservoir. The Americans there had began calling it Chosin Reservoir. The 15,000 troops were facing off against a division of 120,000 men. Strongly outnumbered, outgunned, and undersupplied, the troops weren’t sure what to do next. One thing was...

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[StrayMixx]

why weren't you any of my history teachers in high school? you would've been full of fun facts, making class a whole lot more fun than my real history teachers did! lol

 

[Ahsoka]

why weren't you any of my history teachers in high school? you would've been full of fun facts, making class a whole lot more fun than my real history teachers did! lol

To be fair I think if you were taking AP world history for example that soldiers surviving because of tootsie rolls wouldn’t feature on the test

 

[StrayMixx]

To be fair I think if you were taking AP world history for example that soldiers surviving because of tootsie rolls wouldn’t feature on the test

mmm okay, nevermind then! lol I am more fascinated with it now that I'm out of school, though... funny how that worked out

 

[Ahsoka]

mmm okay, nevermind then! lol I am more fascinated with it now that I'm out of school, though... funny how that worked out

To be fair some teachers are really boring

 

[Faerie]

Someone did a Toopsie Roll.

 

[Selfmate]

CL I think when you make a sponsored post you need to add that in!!!

ie. *this message was sponsored by Tootsie Roll Industries

 

[dark_tranquility]

we barely had a gander at Australian history

for some reason we did ancient and american/canadian as well