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TIL about the Moon is Down by John Steinbeck (1942), the most popular piece of Allied propaganda in Nazi occupied Europe during WWII. Steinbeck was awarded the Freedom Cross by the King of Norway after the war for having “bolstered the morale of his entire war-ravaged nation”.

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k0Xe TIL While playing a game of Chess in France, Benjamin Franklin took his opponent’s King after she inadvertently put it in check. When she said, “Ah, we don’t take kings so” Franklin replied, “We do in America.”
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