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TIL: Grand Theft Auto 2 was set in 2013

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9YOeG TIL during the Christmas truce of the great war in 1914, German and British troops held a football match in no man's land. Germans won 3-2.
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5YLZ9 TIL that the name Mercedes was the name of the daughter of an entrepreneur Emil Jellinek who worked with the Diamler Motors Corporation and helped create the Mercedes 35hp in 1900
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