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TIL that Stephen Hawking was badly abused by his second wife, Elaine Mason

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9w0g7 TIL The United States does not have an official language
0p1v TIL Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France, upon seeing the terms given to Germany at Versailles, declared “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.”
R7AK6 TIL a translator misinterpreted President Carter's words during his speech in his 1977's visit to Poland, and made it appear as if he had sexual desires for the country.
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