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TIL Ikea used East German political prisoners as slave labor
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TIL that George Washington ordered a ceasefire during the Revolutionary War to return a lost dog to its owner, Sir William Howe, a British general. The dog was found wandering the battlefield and was fed and cleaned before being returned to Howe.
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TIL the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World only existed simultaneously for a period of less than 60 years.
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TIL the sewers of Bucharest are populated by thousands of children who moved there when orphanages were closed following the fall of Communism. Drug use, tuberculosis, and HIV are rampant, and their king is a man named Bruce Lee.
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TIL that a Somali pirate fell into a "movie trap" in Brussels. Thinking that he would work on a documentary, he was instead arrested as soon as he disembarked from his flight.
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TIL that Matt Cvetic, a Pittsburgh steel mill worker, was hired by the FBI to infiltrate the Communist party for nine years. His cover was so good that even his own family didn’t know he was undercover and despised him for his beliefs.