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TIL a .25 square mile town of 5 people was created in New Jersey just so the country club members could play golf on Sunday.

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4o9o TIL in Soviet-controlled states, prisoners would get tattoos of figures such a Lenin and Karl Marx because firing squads and guards were not allowed to deface images of the USSR’s founding fathers.
DGpJ TIL During the Battle of Stalingrad, the Russian army would project audio propaganda to demoralize German forces, including a “Death Tango” and a female voice saying “Every 7 seconds, a German soldier dies on the Eastern Front.” followed by a clock’s ticking noise.
ONJ1 TIL Auschwitz prisoner Kazimierz Piechowski, along with 3 others, were able to escape the camp by simply dressing up as Nazi Officers & commandeering the Deputy Führer’s car. When they arrived at the gate they simply barked orders to the guards who let them out no questions asked.
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GRwN TIL King John of Bohemia was blind, and fought and eventually died in battle where he apparently just flailed his sword around like a mad man. He was reported to have said. “Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs [from a fight]!”