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TIL of a British proposal to have a sniper assassinate Hitler that was vetoed because it was ‘unsportsmanlike’

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R5dw TIL that people with a certain type of dwarfism are genetically protected against getting diabetes and cancer
6Ww7 TIL that every country in the United Nations has signed the “Convention on the Rights of a Child” except Somalia, South Sudan and the United States of America.
Ypgvv TIL of Master Sergeant Roddie Edwards, the ranking US officer at a Nazi POW camp. When Nazis told him to assemble his Jewish soldiers, he instead assembled all of his soldiers and told the German commandant that "we are all Jews here." He saved up to 200 Jewish soldiers.
kOxMm TIL There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written
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