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TIL Mohammed V, Sultan of Morocco during the Vichy regime, protected Moroccan Jews from being deported or killed during WWII. The Moroccan Jewish population was essentially in tact at the end of the war.

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l7odG TIL British and Commonwealth Bomber Aircrew suffered a 44% fatality rate in WWII. By 1943, only 1 in 40 would survive two tours (30 missions per tour).
nW9QG TIL that when Roland Ratzenberger died in a crash in the Formula1 race in Imola in 1994, the car computer registered a deceleration of 500 G, the highest ever recorder in an F1 car.
R7joj TIL Carlos Alhinho, a Portuguese professional soccer player and manager was killed when he opened the doors on the elevator on the sixth floor of his hotel in Benguela. He stepped in and found that the carriage was not there, but the ground floor. He fell down five floors onto the top of the cabin.
KPoB TIL Hitlerszalonna, or “Hitler Bacon,” was the nickname given to a dense jam eaten by Hungarian soldiers and citizens during WWII. Before the war, the Austrian Emporer would send troops packages of bacon (Kaiser Bacon), but when Hitler took over the bacon was replaced with fruit jam, hence the name.
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