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TIL Jimmy Carter was attacked by a rabbit while on a boating trip in his home state (GA), and there was a White House photographer who captured the encounter.

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wLKX1 TIL that in 1944 Dutch Resistance members dressed as German SD (intelligence agents) went into Leeuwarden prison, and walked out with 39 prisoners, and all vanished into the city. No shots were fired, and the Germans never caught anyone.
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