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TIL that “preposterous” is essentially Latin for “ass-backwards”

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OGLLa TIL Princess Alice of Battenberg, the mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, organized soup kitchens and orphanages during the Nazi occupation of Greece. She would give away her own food to people on the street and she hid Jews in her home. She was also born deaf.
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