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TIL Blondie wrote an original James Bond song : "For Your Eyes Only" but it was rejected and she refused to sing the version the producers chose (sung by Sheena Easton)

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p8mNZ TIL that Deutsche Bank financed the construction of Auschwitz and was involved in the confiscation of 363 Jewish-owned businesses in Germany during the 1930s.
4XMmR TIL Hungarian prime minster committed suicide because he strongly opposed the country entering WW2, Hungary let German army to occupy Yugoslavia although Yugoslavia and Hungary had pact about "forever friendship" a few months prior.
LkG8v TIL Wahl invented the electric hair clippers 100 years ago! and people are still afraid to trim their bush with it.
4XpKg TIL that Pinball was removed from Windows because it had a rounding error in the 64 bit version of XP. The code was written by an outside company and it had no comments whatsoever, so they decided to scrap it instead of spending time trying to figure out how the code worked.
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