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XEDPP TIL that Stalin hated soldiers who surrendered and considered them traitors. This included his own son, Yakov. When informed that the Nazi's had captured Yakov and sought a possible prisoner exchange with the USSR Stalin replied "I have no son called Yakov".
ymYX TIL that when the Declaration of Independence was being drafted, Benjamin Franklin suggested that the word “sacred” be replaced with “self-evident” because he believed that the nation should be founded on reason, not faith.