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TIL Tobey Maguire's father was convicted of robbing a bank

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kJA8m TIL that in 2019, Lachlan Murdoch bought the ‘Chartwell Estate’ for approximately 150 million dollars. The Los Angeles based home served as the exterior shots for the mansion used by the Clampetts on the 1960s tv series ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’.
woM4P TIL about the Munich Agreement - lead by British PM Neville Chamberlain, France and the UK agreed to the German annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland in September 1938 in exchange for assurances against further German aggression. Hitler seized all of Czechoslovakia 6 months later.
Wkkk4 TIL Germany has mandatory quiet time from 1pm to 3pm and 10pm to 6am Monday- Saturday and all day Sundays and holidays.
71nP TIL During WWI, On christmas of 1914, the british and germans lay down their weapons, crossed no man’s land, and joined each other to celebrate. They exchanged food, played games, sang songs, and even attended burials for each side. This was seen as a symbolic moment during the conflict.
gMD7L TIL having expulsed Mexican migrant workers in 1965, a program was created to replace the missing labor with American youth. 3300 teenagers ended up picking crops as a summer job. The conditions were so bad that within 2 weeks 200 had quit and many held strikes. The program was never tried again