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TiL the only living survivors of the sinking of the Tirpitz are trees - and they'll happily tell you what they saw.

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yQPJV TIL that despite Denmark being occupied by Nazi Germany, over 99% of Denmark's Jewish community was spared from the Holocaust by being evacuated to Sweden in 1943
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woj8o TIL of Ida & Isidor Straus, a couple aboard the Titanic the night it sank. Isidor had a chance to join his wife on a life boat, but stayed behind to give his place away to a child. Ida, refusing to leave her husband behind, too left the life boat. They died together arm in arm when the ship sank.
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