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TIL of Anton Ludwig August von Mackensen, a German Field Marshal who served in the Military during the Franco Prussian War, WW1 and WW2. He witnessed Germany when it was the Kingdom of Prussia, the German Empire, Weimar Republic Germany, Nazi Germany and the Federal Republic of Germany.

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AN1Yn TIL New Zealand was removed from the US' "Nuclear Umbrella" in 1986 as punishment for advocating global disarmament, which means that any country could strike them without facing retaliatory (nuclear) strikes.
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