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TIL that one of Hitlers highest ranking officers was half-jewish but Hitler declared him Aryan to get around it

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o5mL TIL The Shot at Dawn Memorial in Staffordshire, UK is a monument to to servicemen executed by firing squad during WWI. It is alleged that soldiers accused of cowardice were often not given fair trials; they were often not properly defended, suffering from shell shock, and some were minors.
PYlWG TIL that when visiting president Jimmy Carter, Willie Nelson and the president's son, James Earl Carter III, were caught smoking weed on the roof of the White House
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