It's Wojtek day!! On this day in 1942, Polish troops adopted a bear

@depthsofwiki "he was given marmalade"

@depthsofwiki Thank you for all your hard work, Corporal 🫡🫡

@depthsofwiki Happy Wojtek Day @MichaelBaumann 🧸

@depthsofwiki "Which became his favorite drink" bro that's just alcohol addiction

@depthsofwiki fun fact he was one of the 3(?) bears in the polish military!! and he assisted in the battle of monte cassino!! i love wojtek so mucj

@depthsofwiki Najlepszego Wojtek

@depthsofwiki They have a statue of him in Edinburgh

@depthsofwiki Poland mentioned

@depthsofwiki I want a movie about him, just like cocaine bear

@depthsofwiki Thank God he was fed condensed milk. Otherwise he'd be Soy Wojtek.

@depthsofwiki My favourite anecdote about him; one time a doctor passed him smoking a cigarette, but would not give one to the bear, so he bear knocked him over, and rolled him in the mud. Try to explain how a bear (in England!) rolled you in mud for not giving a cigarette to your superiors...

@depthsofwiki Also in military animals: Sergeant Reckless. That's right private, you're outranked by the horse. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_…

@depthsofwiki He was not the only bear in Polish army. Baśka of Murmansk the polar bear here:

@depthsofwiki omg he was a teddy bear that's so cute

@depthsofwiki “he was eventually enlisted officially as a soldier with the rank of private, and was subsequently promoted to corporal”

@depthsofwiki @pilcrow44 najlepszego

@depthsofwiki It’d been done before… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Col…

@depthsofwiki @Scheelite01

@depthsofwiki It’s so great that he was actually given a military rank and was an officially enlisted soldier. What a cool bear

@depthsofwiki it's the international roma day

@depthsofwiki @Marta7Kowal

@depthsofwiki @Connor_Quimby2

@depthsofwiki Wojtek has a statue in Krakow, Poland

@depthsofwiki OH MY GOD @dante__notok

@depthsofwiki Just found out about Wojtek. What an absolute legend

@depthsofwiki the coolest bear alive

@depthsofwiki There were Polish troops in 1942?

@depthsofwiki @kalach444

@depthsofwiki Imagine the early spring chill that they felt / and perhaps a few cherry trees standing thereabout!

@depthsofwiki The second bear youtu.be/mRig2NjTd2Q

@depthsofwiki Yay!