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TIL after President Woodrow Wilson suffered a severe stroke in Oct. 1919 his wife (Edith Wilson) began to screen all matters of state and decided which to bring to the bedridden president. In doing so, she de facto ran the executive branch of the government for the remainder of Wilson’s second term.

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xVYMD TIL that there is a satirical Danish short show series called Nazitübbies that tries to imagine what the show Teletubbies would have been like had Nazis won the WWII
m1Wov TIL there's only one recording of Hitler's voice where he isn't giving a speech. It's a private conversation between himself and Finnish leader Mannerheim recorded in secrecy by a sound engineer in 1942.
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