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TIL that Otto von Bismarck (born in 1815) recorded himself on an Edison phonograph in 1889 quoting the lyrics of 'La Marseillaise'. The first chancellor of united Germany recited the national anthem of France to mock the French, whom he had defeated in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.

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