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TIL that after conquering Britain, the Nazis planned to deport all men aged between 17 and 45 to Germany to perform slave labour, while the remaining population was terrorised

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9Ywmr TIL of the huia bird. It went extinct in 1907 and its call was never recorded, but it exists today because an elderly Maori man imitated in 1949 from memories of his childhood.
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