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TIL: that in WW1 the occupied french town of Le Quesnoy, a walled town with a wall dating back to the medieval period was taken by New Zealand Troops without the wall being blown up. Instead a few men with a ladder climbed the wall and opened the gates from the inside preserving the wall.

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