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TIL the pirate Hayreddin “Red beard” Barbarossa (1478-1546) was exiled from so many countries that he ended up starting his own country (Regency of Algiers) with the blessing of The Ottoman Empire which became present day Algeria, Tunisia and parts of Morocco.

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ANoMB TIL the guy the German military send to infiltrate and look for subversive tendencies in DAP ( German Worker's Party) in 1919 was Adolf Hitler
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DQXKp TIL there is a satirical political party in Germany called “Die Partie” that has pledged to build a wall around Switzerland and to rebuild the Berlin Wall. They received 900,000 votes in the 2019 EU elections
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