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TIL about Christine Granville, a WW2 spy and Polish aristocrat - Winston Churchill would declare her as his favourite spy. She talks her way into service with M16, gets captured by Germans twice but escapes, and rescues her lover from execution by firing squad.
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TIL Winston Churchill would attend Shakespeare plays and recite the lines along with the actors from the front row. Richard Burton, playing Hamlet at the Old Vic theatre, tried to shake Churchill by changing the speed of his delivery, but Churchill stayed with him the whole way.
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TIL dogs are cleaner than beards