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TIL During the Axis occupation of Greece, a young Maria Callas (according to both her husband and her close friend) was pressured by her mother to go out with Axis soldiers in exchange for food and money. Maria never forgave her mother for forcing her into what she considered a type of prostitution.

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x6BRk TIL that Polio is one of only two diseases currently the subject of a global eradication program, the other being Guinea worm disease. So far, the only diseases completely eradicated by humankind are smallpox, declared eradicated in 1980, and rinderpest, declared eradicated in 2011.
9YpN6 TIL that Queen Elizabeth uses signals with her handbag to send secret messages to her staff
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