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TIL the Allies had plenty of opportunities to assassinate Hitler; but didn't, because he was a terrible strategist (Any replacement would have been more competent and therefore worse for the Allies).

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4X4BR TIL that Poles (Polish people) once held the strong belief that they were the descendants of an old Iranian tribe
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4O6N TIL the way the French say “Go fly a kite” is “Go somewhere else and see if I’m there.”
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