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TIL the former mayor of Palm Beach Florida was the cousin of Tsar Nicholas II, last Tsar of Russia

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PBoG TIL of Yang Kyoungjon, a Korean soldier who fought in the Imperial Japanese Army, captured and forced into the Soviet Red Army, and later recaptured and forced into the German Wehrmacht during World War II, eventually being captured and freed by paratroopers of the US army in 1944.
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