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TIL In WWII, a Polish soldier volunteered to be thrown in Auschwitz and escape to prove to the Allies that the Holocaust was real.

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N1n1 TIL about Maharaja Alwar. During a visit to the Rolls Royce showroom in England, he was treated disrespectfully due to his race. He then proceeded to buy 7 rolls royce cars and use them for garbage disposal in his palace. Rolls Royce wrote him a apology and asked him not to tarnish their reputation.
neb9W TIL that famous English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried most of his poems with his late wife in Highgate Cemetery of London, then later had her exhumed so he could retrieve them.
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W7ZxY TIL that from the 1800s through the 1970s, a secret pseudo-language was used amongst British entertainers, sailors, and criminals. It was a mixture of Italian, Romani, Yiddish and rhyming slang, and originated the modern slang terms “acdc,” “butch,” “camp,” “ogle” and others.
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