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TIL the French village of Thierville is the only village in France which suffered zero casualties in either World War.

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9wylr TIL Britain and France almost formed a political union in the 1940s
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lJX1 TIL during the Cold War, President Nixon devised a strategy to make the USSR think he was crazy and capable of launching nukes at any moment. It was called the “Madman Theory”.