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TIL that in 1945, 57% the French population thought the Soviet Union contributed the most to the defeat of the Nazis. The same poll in 2004 resulted in 58% thinking America contributed the most.

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xVpQk TIL: of Josephine Myrtle Corbin she was born with four legs and two sets of genitals. She could move all 4 but only walk with 2. She had 2 functioning sets of reproductive organs and was able to successfully carry three pregnancies on the right side and the other two on the left.
wNjJ TIL at age 16, Queen Anne of Romania fled from the Nazi Germans in 1939 and eventually escaped to the US. She attended college in NY and worked as a sales assistant at Macy’s department store. In 1943, she volunteered for military service in the French Army, where she received the Cross of war
4Xj6X TIL of Vitaly Yurchenko, a KGB officer who was turned by the CIA and defected to the US. He gave the name of 2 moles, and in 1985 disappeared just before eating at a French restaurant in DC. He later reappeared in Russia, saying he was drugged and kidnapped by the CIA, and was given a medal.
bOQQ TIL Dave Chappelle converted to Islam in 1998. He said, “I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing”
omPY TIL ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.